de of het werkschema?
het werkschema
work schedule
noun · /ˈʋɛrkˌsxeː.maː/
It is “het werkschema”.
Pronunciation, example sentences and the rest of the entry: werkschema
Forms
- Article
- het werkschema
- Diminutive
- het werkschemaatje
- How common
- in everyday Dutch
In a sentence
Het werkschema is klaar voor volgende week.
The work schedule is ready for next week.
Heb je het nieuwe werkschema al bekeken?
Have you already looked at the new work schedule?
We moeten het werkschema vanavond bespreken.
We need to discuss the work schedule tonight.
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 werkschema” rather than as “werkschema” 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.