Grammatica - loco

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The words euro and cent, as well as the names of all other currencies, are
not pluralized when they are used in prices, e.g. Dat kost tien cent/euro/
dollar/pond/roebel. Exception: één kroon ‘one crown’ > vijf kronen ‘five
crowns’. Euro’s is only used in the plural when referring to a collection
of one euro coins, e.g. Heeft u voor mij tien losse euro’s, alstublieft? (handing
over a €10 note). Centen refers to several 1 cent coins.
For a long time to come there will be pre-euro literature in circulation so
it is worth knowing about the system as it was. The old Dutch coins all
had names (compare the use of ‘nickel’, ‘dime’ and ‘quarter’ in the USA)
which you are likely to meet in books. Both the amounts and the coins
themselves were referred to as een stuiver (5 cent), een dubbeltje (10 cent),
een kwartje (25 cent) and een rijksdaalder (twee gulden vijftig) and ten
guilders was called een tientje. The symbol the Dutch used for a guilder
was f, which is an abbreviation of florijn, a currency unit which was used
long ago.
It would seem that in the Dutch of some speakers, but not by any means
all, the terms stuiver and dubbeltje are currently being applied to both the
euro coins and amounts of five and ten cents. The term kwartje does not
seem to have totally disappeared either, but is less common than the other
two terms, presumably because there is no longer a 25 cent coin. Tientje
may also still be heard with reference to both the note and the sum of ten
euros.
The word ton is used colloquially to refer to €100,000, e.g. Hij verdient
twee ton ‘He earns €200,000’. Note the way earnings are expressed:
Hij verdient €950,- in de maand (per maand)/in de week
(per week).
He earns €950 a month/a week.
It is the custom in Holland to round prices up and down (prijzen worden
naar boven/beneden afgerond), given the low value of the one and two
cent coins, thus €2,97 becomes €2,95 and €2,98 becomes €3,00. This
was also the case with guilder prices after the abolition of the one cent
coin in 1980.
14.8
Time
Hoe laat is het? What is the time?
Het is één uur. It is one o’clock.
Time
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