De or het vesting?

The correct Dutch article is:

de vesting

  • English: fortress
  • Plural: de vestingen
  • Diminutive: het vestinkje
Rule Words ending in -ing: almost always de. See the rule
Meaning (Dutch) (militair, geschiedenis) een militair versterkte stad.

How to use vesting

the fortressde vesting
this fortressdeze vesting
that fortressdie vesting
our fortressonze vesting
your fortressjouw vesting
every fortresselke vesting
which fortress?welke vesting?
a big fortress / the big fortresseen grote vesting, de grote vesting
the fortress (plural)de vestingen, deze vestingen

Example sentences with vesting

  • Je kunt daar een vesting bekijken. “You can go and see a fortress there.”
  • De priesters kwamen aan de macht en de kerken werden vestingen. “The priests rose to power and the churches became fortresses.”

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