de of het mokkel?
het mokkel
babe
noun · /ˈmɔ.kəl/
It is “het mokkel”. The plural is “de mokkels”, and like every Dutch plural it takes “de”.
Pronunciation, example sentences and the rest of the entry: mokkel
Forms
- Article
- het mokkel
- Plural
- de mokkels
- Diminutive
- het mokkeltje
- Also means
- broad, slut, chubby woman, girl
- How common
- in everyday Dutch
In a sentence
Wie is dat leuke mokkel daar?
Who is that nice broad over there?
Hij heeft een nieuw mokkel meegebracht.
He brought a new broad with him.
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 mokkel” rather than as “mokkel” 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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