De or het kameel?

The correct Dutch article is:

de kameel

  • English: camel
  • Plural: de kamelen
  • Diminutive: het kameeltje
Meaning (Dutch) (evenhoevigen) bepaald soort hoefdier met twee bulten op de rug, Camelus bactrianus

How to use kameel

the camelde kameel
this cameldeze kameel
that cameldie kameel
our camelonze kameel
your cameljouw kameel
every camelelke kameel
which camel?welke kameel?
a big camel / the big cameleen grote kameel, de grote kameel
the camel (plural)de kamelen, deze kamelen

Example sentences with kameel

  • Sami stopte zijn kameel. “Sami stopped his camel.”
  • Sami doodde zijn kameel. “Sami killed his camel.”
  • Sami borstelde zijn kameel. “Sami was brushing his camel.”

Dutch words ending in kameel

schaapkameel | spaarkameel | circuskameel

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

Dutch words starting with kameel

kameelachtige | kameeldoorn | kameelgeit | kameelgras | kameelhaar | kameelhalsvlieg | kameelhalswesp | kameelschaap | kameeltje

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