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"The apple"
Translation:De appel
July 20, 2014
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It depends on the gender of the noun, which in most cases you have to memorize. See here: https://www.duolingo.com/comment/3732938
Well, there's some truth to that, because Dutch did use to have three genders, masculine, feminine and neuter, but then the masculine and the feminine merged, giving us common (de) and neuter (het).
You can see Scandinavian languages like Swedish already went through this too (en/ett), while German still has three (der/die/das) and English obviously has lost all gender (the).