Grammatica - loco

1111
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
1011
1
12111
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
20111
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
30111
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
40
41111
6788 zesduizend zevenhonderd achtentachtig 5
200,000 tweehonderdduizend 5
1,000,000 één miljoen 9
2,000,000 twee miljoen
one billion één miljard 9 (i.e. one thousand million)
14.1.1
14.1.1.1
Notes on cardinals
From 1,100 to 9,999 the Dutch commonly count in hundreds but may
also use thousands as in English, e.g. 6,300 can be read as drieënzestighonderd
or zesduizend driehonderd, but even thousands are said in
thousands, i.e. 2,000 is tweeduizend and not *twintighonderd (see 14.9
for hundreds in dates). For all numerals from 10,000 on, the same system
as in English applies, e.g. 10,634 tienduizend zeshonderd vierendertig.
6 Note that no ‘and’ is inserted between honderd/duizend in the figure that follows,
e.g. zeshonderd twintig, as in American English where in British English one says ‘six
hundred and twenty’. One does in fact hear driehonderd en tien or duizend en zes but
this en is only found before the numerals 1 to 12 and is never necessary. But en is used
in such cases in certain standard expressions:
Verhalen van duizend-en-één-nacht
Stories of 1001 nights
Ze praatten over honderd-en-één dingen.
They talked about a thousand and one things.
7 The initial letters of the numerals 40, 50, 60 and 70 are unvoiced for historical
reasons, i.e. one says feertig, fijftig, sestig, seventig. Combined with other numerals, the
v in veertig and vijftig may be pronounced v, but in such cases the s in zestig and
zeventig remains s.
8 Note the initial t in tachtig. It has historical connections with footnote 7.
9 Honderd and duizend render ‘a hundred’ and ‘a thousand’. Éénhonderd and éénduizend
render ‘one hundred’ and ‘one thousand’, but are only used when an emphasis is
required. But note that een ‘a’ or één ‘one’ are always used before miljoen and miljard—
these two words are both stressed on the second syllable.
Cardinal
numbers
345