de of het weerbericht?
het weerbericht
weather report
noun
It is “het weerbericht”. The plural is “de weerberichten”, and like every Dutch plural it takes “de”.
Pronunciation, example sentences and the rest of the entry: weerbericht
Forms
- Article
- het weerbericht
- Plural
- de weerberichten
- Diminutive
- het weerberichtje
- How common
- in everyday Dutch
In a sentence
Heb je het weerbericht al gezien?
Have you seen the weather report yet?
Volgens het weerbericht wordt het morgen zonnig.
According to the weather report, it will be sunny tomorrow.
Ik luister altijd naar het weerbericht op de radio.
I always listen to the weather report on the radio.
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 weerbericht” rather than as “weerbericht” 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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