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14<br />

Numerals<br />

354<br />

2/3 twee derde 15 (van de mensen etc.)<br />

3/8 drie achtste<br />

1/16 een zestiende (deel)<br />

0,5% nul komma vijf procent 16 point five per cent<br />

1,8% een komma acht procent one point eight percent<br />

14.4<br />

Arithmetic (rekenen)<br />

optellen to add 4 plus/en 4 is 8<br />

aftrekken van to subtract from 4 min 2 is 2<br />

vermenigvuldigen met to multiply by 2 keer/maal 3 is 6<br />

delen door to divide by 10 gedeeld door 2 is 5<br />

tot 10 tellen to count to 10<br />

‘Ten squared’ is tien kwadraat and ‘ten to the power of seven’ etc. is tien<br />

tot de zevende macht.<br />

14.5<br />

Temperature<br />

1° één graad<br />

10° tien graden (Celsius)<br />

12° twaalf graden onder/boven nul<br />

15 ‘One tenth of a pound’ is één tiende pond. Note the use of the singular with fractions:<br />

Twee derde van de bevolking is in de oorlog gestorven.<br />

Two thirds of the population died in the war.<br />

A plural of such fractions is possible if one refers to the parts as separate parts:<br />

Twee derden van de taart zijn verkocht.<br />

Two thirds of the cake have been sold.<br />

Note also the use of a singular verb after a fraction or a percentage followed by a<br />

plural noun:<br />

Ongeveer een derde/30% van de Nederlanders woont in een eigen huis.<br />

About a third/30% of the Dutch live in a home of their own.<br />

16 One also hears percent and the noun is always percentage (n).

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