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- "De neushoorn eet een appel."
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- De and het - https://www.duolingo.com/comment/3732938
- Niet and geen - https://www.duolingo.com/comment/3734833
There is no difference. However you can figure it out because of context. Mainly because eet (singular) and eten (plural) have to match the subject. The same also happens with some other verbs, see below.
- ik (singular) eet een taart (singular) = I eat a cake/I eat a pie
- wij (plural) eten taart = we eat cake/pie
Sometimes the noun also helps (the noun needs to be plural or uncountable if it's not preceded by an article):
- ik lees een boek - I read a book - you can never use a plural noun here, so if you hear lezen boek it will in fact (almost?) always be lees een boek
- wij lezen boeken - we read books - similarly you can't use a singular noun here, so if you think you hear something like lees een boeken it will always have been lezen boeken