de of het trammelant?
het trammelant
fuss
noun · /ˌtrɑ.məˈlɑnt/
It is “het trammelant”.
Pronunciation, example sentences and the rest of the entry: trammelant
Forms
- Article
- het trammelant
- Diminutive
- het trammelantje
- Also means
- loud disturbing noise
- How common
- in everyday Dutch
In a sentence
Waarom maak je zo veel trammelant?
Why are you making so much fuss?
Er was gisteren veel trammelant op straat.
There was a lot of commotion on the street yesterday.
Laten we geen trammelant veroorzaken.
Let's not cause any fuss.
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 trammelant” rather than as “trammelant” 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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