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14<br />

Numerals<br />

364<br />

14.11.2<br />

Square and cubic measurements<br />

vijf bij vijf (meter) five by five (metres)<br />

drie vierkante meter three square metres<br />

zes kubieke meter six cubic metres<br />

14.11.3<br />

Distance<br />

Distances are measured in kilometres in Holland and the word kilometer,<br />

like centimeter and meter, is never used in the plural after numerals:<br />

We hebben vandaag 500 kilometer gereden.<br />

We drove 500 kilometres today.<br />

But note honderden/duizenden kilometers ‘hundreds/thousands of kilometres’<br />

where the word is pluralized. Mijl (c) ‘mile’ can be used when<br />

talking of distances in English-speaking countries, e.g. tien mijl ‘ten miles’.<br />

Petrol consumption of a car is expressed as follows:<br />

Mijn auto rijdt een op vijftien (i.e. één liter op vijftien<br />

kilometer).<br />

My car does fifteen kilometres to the litre.<br />

Speed is expressed as follows:<br />

Hij reed tachtig (kilometer per uur).<br />

He was driving (at) 80 kilometres an hour.<br />

Compare:<br />

Hij reed met tachtig (kilometer per uur) de rivier in.<br />

He drove into the river at eighty kilometres an hour.<br />

14.12<br />

Playing cards<br />

schoppen spades<br />

ruiten diamonds<br />

klaveren clubs<br />

harten hearts

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