het merendeel
majority
noun · /ˈmeː.rə(n)ˈdeːl/
Its article is not one a rule predicts. Why het merendeel?
Forms
- Article
- het merendeel
- Plural
- de merendelen
- Diminutive
- het merendeeltje
- Also means
- largest proportion
- How common
- in everyday Dutch
In a sentence
Het merendeel van de studenten was aanwezig.
The majority of the students were present.
Het merendeel van de stemmen ging naar hem.
The majority of the votes went to him.
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