Diminutives (-je, -tje, -pje): de or het?

always het

Diminutives end in -je, -tje, -pje, -etje or -kje. They always take het, even when the base word takes de: de tafel becomes het tafeltje. In the plural they take de again: de tafeltjes.

In our database, 2,428 of the 2,458 words (98.8%) with this ending take het.