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het college

lecture

noun · /ˌkɔˈleː.ʒə/

Its article is not one a rule predicts. Why het college?

Forms

Article
het college
Plural
de colleges
Diminutive
het collegetje
Also means
collegial board, as an authority, secondary school, high school, academic lecture
How common
among the 5,000 most common Dutch words

In a sentence

Het college begint om negen uur.

The lecture starts at nine o'clock.

Ik heb vandaag drie colleges.

I have three lectures today.

Zij geeft college over geschiedenis.

She lectures on history.

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