de of het logies?
het logies
lodging
noun · /loːˈʒi/
It is “het logies”.
Pronunciation, example sentences and the rest of the entry: logies
Forms
- Article
- het logies
- Diminutive
- het logiesje
- How common
- in everyday Dutch
In a sentence
Wij zoeken nog het logies voor vannacht.
We are still looking for lodging for tonight.
Ik kan je gratis logies aanbieden.
I can offer you free lodging.
Is het logies bij de prijs inbegrepen?
Is the lodging included in the price?
Why this article
No rule predicts it
This one has to be memorised. No spelling pattern marks it as neuter, which is exactly why it is worth learning as “het logies” rather than as “logies” on its own.
The rules that do work
- • Every plural takes “de”, without exception.
- • Every diminutive ending in -je takes “het”, without exception.
- • Nouns ending in -ing, -heid, -tie, -teit or -schap take “de”.
- • Roughly two thirds of all nouns take “de”, so it is the better guess.
Other nouns whose article has to be memorised
Stop guessing de and het
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