De or het doctor?

The correct Dutch article is:

de doctor

  • English: doctor
  • Plural: de doctors / doctoren
  • Diminutive: het doctortje
Meaning (Dutch) een academicus die een goedgekeurd proefschrift heeft geschreven

How to use doctor

the doctorde doctor
this doctordeze doctor
that doctordie doctor
our doctoronze doctor
your doctorjouw doctor
every doctorelke doctor
which doctor?welke doctor?
a big doctor / the big doctoreen grote doctor, de grote doctor
the doctor (plural)de doctors, deze doctors

Example sentences with doctor

  • Het is misschien beter om haar aan te spreken als doctor. “It might be better to address her as Doctor.”

Dutch words ending in doctor

eredoctor | spindoctor

In compound words, the last part decides the article. See the rule

Dutch words starting with doctor

doctoraal | doctoraalexamen | doctoraalopleiding | doctoraalscriptie | doctoraalstudent | doctoraalstudie | doctoraat | doctoraatsopleiding | doctoranda | doctorandus | doctorandustitel | doctores | doctorsbul | doctorsgraad | doctorstitel

Meaning, plural, diminutive, pronunciation and translations: WikiWoordenboek (Dutch Wiktionary) (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences: Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR).