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De or het syncopetje?

het syncopetje

Meaning

the loss or elision of a sound from the interior of a word (for example the change of Dutch veder in veer "feather"); syncope

Why?

Every singular Dutch diminutive takes het.

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Plural
de syncopes
Diminutive
het syncopetje
Demonstrative
deze syncope / die syncope
With an adjective
een mooie syncope / de mooie syncope
See the base form