De or het sterveling?

The correct Dutch article is:

de sterveling

  • English: mortal
  • Plural: de stervelingen
  • Diminutive: het stervelingetje
Rule Words ending in -ing: almost always de. See the rule
Meaning (Dutch) een wezen dat na verloop van tijd sterft

How to use sterveling

the mortalde sterveling
this mortaldeze sterveling
that mortaldie sterveling
our mortalonze sterveling
your mortaljouw sterveling
every mortalelke sterveling
which mortal?welke sterveling?
a big mortal / the big mortaleen grote sterveling, de grote sterveling
the mortal (plural)de stervelingen, deze stervelingen

Example sentences with sterveling

  • De gewone sterveling kan geen twintig uur per dag werken. “The ordinary mortal is not capable of working twenty hours a day.”

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