de of het reçu?
het reçu
receipt
noun · /rəˈsy/
It is “het reçu”.
Pronunciation, example sentences and the rest of the entry: reçu
Forms
- Article
- het reçu
- Diminutive
- het reçuutje
- How common
- in everyday Dutch
In a sentence
Mag ik alstublieft het reçu?
Can I please have the receipt?
Controleer de datum op het reçu.
Check the date on the receipt.
Het reçu is helaas kwijt.
The receipt is unfortunately lost.
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 reçu” rather than as “reçu” 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
Woordje has a practice mode for exactly this: it shows a noun and asks for the article, and keeps asking until you stop getting it wrong.