De or het
Every Dutch noun takes either de or het. A handful of rules cover many words, the rest you learn together with the word, and the article affects more words than you might think.
Why
Het meisje die naast me zit or het meisje dat naast me zit? And why do you say deze tafel but dit huis?
Every noun is either a de word or a het word. That looks like a detail, but many other words adapt to it: deze or dit, die or dat, and even the extra e on an adjective.
For anyone learning Dutch as a second language, this is one of the hardest parts. Even people born here are sometimes unsure. Luckily, a few fixed rules help.
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