De or het smoking?

The correct Dutch article is:

de smoking

  • English: dinner jacket, tuxedo
  • Plural: de smokings
  • Diminutive: het smokinkje
Rule Words ending in -ing: almost always de. See the rule
Meaning (Dutch) (kleding) een twee- of driedelig zwart kostuum gedragen als avondkleding

How to use smoking

the dinner jacketde smoking
this dinner jacketdeze smoking
that dinner jacketdie smoking
our dinner jacketonze smoking
your dinner jacketjouw smoking
every dinner jacketelke smoking
which dinner jacket?welke smoking?
a big dinner jacket / the big dinner jacketeen grote smoking, de grote smoking
the dinner jacket (plural)de smokings, deze smokings

Example sentences with smoking

  • Hij droeg een smoking. “He was wearing a dinner jacket.”

Dutch words ending in smoking

campingsmoking | pitbullsmoking

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

Dutch words starting with smoking

smokingstrik

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