"The girl"
Translation:Het meisje
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"Obviously feminine or masculine nouns: de. Gender is very difficult to tell in Dutch, but obvious words like woman (vrouw) and man get de." So why "de meisje" is incorrect? It is an exception?
girl (meisje) is not feminine or masculine? so De is for neutral and masuline, and Het is feminine?
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No, the word girl in Dutch (and German) is neuter, as hungover mentioned before. De is for feminine and masculine nouns, while het is for neuter nouns. I don't know why the word for girl is neuter in Dutch and German, but they are so you use het.
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Meisje is the diminutive of meid. All diminutives are neuter.
(Thankfully this works the same way in German, or I'd be confused by it too.)
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If a word has "je" or "tje" behind it (meisje, muisje, jongetje, kastje) it a small version of an object, so it gets "het" instead of "de". Example: De jongen(the boy). Het kleine jongetje (the little boy).
