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14<br />

Numerals<br />

362<br />

in vijf jaar tijd in five years’ time (i.e. in the course<br />

of five years)<br />

over vijf jaar in five years’ time (i.e. from now)<br />

rond de eeuwwisseling at the turn of the century<br />

14.10<br />

het gram<br />

het ons<br />

Weights<br />

het pond (i.e. een halve kilo or 500 gram; an English pound is<br />

only 454 grams)<br />

de kilo<br />

These weights are always used in the singular after numerals (as are kwartier,<br />

uur, jaar and keer), e.g. vijf pond, twee ons ‘200 grams’.<br />

Fractions of these weights are expressed as follows:<br />

één tiende gram one-tenth<br />

of a gram<br />

anderhalf ons 150 grams<br />

twee-en-een half ons, 250 gram, een half pond 250 grams<br />

een halve kilo, een pond, 500 gram 500 grams<br />

anderhalf pond, 750 gram 750 grams<br />

Neither pond nor ons are official measures any more but are still very<br />

commonly used. It is very common for sliced meats, for example, to be<br />

sold by the 100 grams and a customer commonly asks for één/twee/drie<br />

ons ham ‘100/200/300 grams of ham’. Note also een klein pondje, a<br />

humorous alternative to iets minder dan een pond ‘a bit less than a pound’<br />

and ruim een pond ‘a good pound’ (i.e. a little over a pound). One says<br />

€1,50 per pond/per kilo or tien euro het pond/de kilo.<br />

People refer to their own weight in kilos:<br />

Ik weeg 70 kilo.<br />

I weigh seventy kilos.

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