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14<br />

Numerals<br />

360<br />

‘a few’ and hoeveel ‘how many’, although the plural forms jaren and uren<br />

can be used to emphasize duration:<br />

Ik heb drie uur zitten lezen.<br />

I sat reading for three hours.<br />

Ik ben er een paar keer geweest.<br />

I’ve been there a few times.<br />

Hij heeft drie jaar in die fabriek gewerkt.<br />

He worked in that factory for three years.<br />

Hij heeft drie lange jaren in die fabriek gewerkt. (emphatic<br />

because of lange)<br />

He worked in that factory for three long years.<br />

But after indefinite pronouns used adjectivally like enkele and enige, jaar<br />

and uur are used in the plural:<br />

Ze hebben enkele uren rondgewandeld.<br />

They walked around for several hours.<br />

Minuut and seconde (both common gender nouns) are always used in the<br />

plural after numerals, e.g. vijf minuten geleden ‘five minutes ago’, drie<br />

seconden later ‘three seconds later’.<br />

14.8.1.7<br />

één keer in het uur/per uur;<br />

om het uur<br />

once an hour<br />

drie keer in de week/per week three times a week<br />

op het hele (halve) uur on the hour (half hour)<br />

tien over heel (half) ten past the hour (the half hour)<br />

tien over het hele/halve uur ten past the hour (the half hour)<br />

14.9<br />

Dates<br />

zondag (zo.) Sunday (Su.) donderdag Thursday<br />

(do.) (Th.)<br />

maandag (ma.) Monday (Mo.) vrijdag (vr.) Friday (Fr.)<br />

dinsdag (di.) Tuesday (Tu.) zaterdag (za.) Saturday<br />

woensdag (wo.) Wednesday<br />

(Wed.)<br />

(Sa.)

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