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The definite article in Dutch is either de or het. De is used as the singular definite article with roughly two thirds of Dutch nouns, which can be called ‘common’ gender.*
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The reason for this proportion is that the former masculine and feminine nouns have merged in gender — as far as the spoken language is concerned — into one.
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© 1974 Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague, Netherlands
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Shetter, W.Z. (1974). The articles, demonstratives. In: Introduction to Dutch. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-9224-8_5
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