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Porthos · Posted: Fri Jun 29, 2007 12:51 am Post subject: Neuter woorden

Ik heb een vraag. Okay, I'm switching to English. In Dutch, there is masculine/feminine "de", and neuter "het". Is "het" only applied to inanimate things then? People and animals are "de", but objects and places are "het"?

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Benjamin [inactive] · Posted: Fri Jun 29, 2007 2:01 am Post subject:

No. Many inanimate objects are de-words, and some animate objects are het-words, especially in the diminutive form.

de auto — the car
de vork — the fork
de student — the stuent
de danser — the dancer
de identiteit — the identity
de kwestie — the question
de hand — the hand
de dag — the day
de tafel — the tabel
de man — the man
de vrouw — the woman

het huis — the house
het meisje — the girl
het mannertje — the little man
het socialisme — the socialism
het woord — the word
het glas — the glass
het kind — the child