de of het wachtwoord?
het wachtwoord
password
noun · /ˈʋɑxt.ʋoːrt/
It is “het wachtwoord”. The plural is “de wachtwoorden”, and like every Dutch plural it takes “de”.
Pronunciation, example sentences and the rest of the entry: wachtwoord
Forms
- Article
- het wachtwoord
- Plural
- de wachtwoorden
- Diminutive
- het wachtwoordje
- How common
- among the 5,000 most common Dutch words
In a sentence
Ik ben mijn wachtwoord vergeten.
I forgot my password.
Voer je wachtwoord hier in.
Enter your password here.
Kies een sterk wachtwoord, alsjeblieft.
Please choose a strong password.
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 wachtwoord” rather than as “wachtwoord” 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.