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1011<br />

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40<br />

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Ze is in verwachting van een tweeling.<br />

She is expecting twins.<br />

Vandaag is er in Leiden een zesling geboren.<br />

Sextuplets were born in Leiden today.<br />

Note the following:<br />

Ik ben er een van een tweeling.<br />

I am a twin.<br />

14.1.2.6<br />

Note the use of the suffix -tal in the following expressions:<br />

een dertigtal/veertigtal etc.<br />

about 40 altogether<br />

het elftal<br />

the (football) team<br />

Ik heb een vijftigtal leerlingen in de klas.<br />

I have about fifty students in my class.<br />

Note also tientallen + a plural noun meaning ‘tens of’: tientallen mensen<br />

‘tens of people’, better expressed in English as ‘dozens of people’.<br />

14.1.2.7<br />

Enerlei, tweeërlei, drieërlei etc. mean ‘of one/two/three kind(s)’ but sound<br />

somewhat stilted whereas allerlei ‘of all kinds/all kinds of’ is commonly<br />

used.<br />

14.1.2.8<br />

Het dubbele, driedubbele, vierdubbele, etc. render ‘twice/three/four times<br />

as much’:<br />

Ik heb het vijfdubbele betaald.<br />

I paid five times as much.<br />

Note the verbs verdubbelen ‘to double’, verdrievoudigen/-dubbelen ‘to<br />

treble’.<br />

Cardinal<br />

numbers<br />

349

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