"Het brood"
Translation:The bread
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This is rough. They both mean "the". Certain nouns are "het" nouns, others (most) are "de" nouns. There is no automatic clue. It just takes a lot of practice until it becomes second nature.
Is especially tricky in this lesson because they show 2 beverages, water and juice, one is het water, the other is de sap
To make it even more confusing, sap is actually one of the few words that can be used both with de and het. Here's a link to the Dutch dictionary that shows that. http://www.vandale.nl/opzoeken?pattern=sap=nn#.VVHR3PmqpBd
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There are no steady rules, just some guidelines (which you can find here http://www.dutchgrammar.com/en/?n=NounsAndArticles.04 )
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In spoken Dutch, it is possible to just say 't as it makes your sentences a bit more fluent.
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thats why in the song het is een nacht he sais t instead of the whole het , thanks that was really helpful
I wrote "eet brood" instead of "het brood" and the machine goes like "you have a typo in your answer". Correct answer. Haha
Pretty much like "boat" but with a Dutch (slightly rolling) 'r' in there.
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Read previous comments, as other users have explained this before.
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Does the 'd' at the end of 'brood' make a 't' sound like it does in German?
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A bit 'softer' actually, so not as in 'eat' but as in 'lead' so pretty much you pronounce the d as a d