"Hij heeft onze hond."
Translation:He has our dog.
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What makes any of those words "de" or "het"? It's not in the sentence itself so how am I supposed to know? I know plural and gender obvious words (like man or girl) are de, but I'm unclear on the rest of the rules.
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There are some they just aren very helpful in most cases … like words ending in -je like in meisje and rokje are het
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It's just grammatical gender, only instead of masculine and feminine, it's masculine/feminine and neuter. Like is always the case with grammatical gender, which word is going to be het vs de is pretty much random, with a bit of a pattern emerging only in words having to do with people.
onze is our ons is us
Hij geeft boeken aan ons - He gives books to us Hij geet onze boek- He gives our book
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The voice really mumbles on here sometimes, thank god for the slow button.