Grammatica - loco

1111
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
1011
1
12111
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
20111
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
30111
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
40
41111
handwritten. If it is a letter for abroad this applies to the country, not the
town. In 1978 zip or postcodes were introduced in The Netherlands; they
consist of four numbers followed by a space and then two capital letters
and are placed before the name of the town, as illustrated above. They
refer to the city block in a given street in which the house occurs and thus
the Dutch postal code book is the size of a telephone book.
The back of the envelope
afz. B. de Bruin
Hoogstraat 10
2509 BA ’s-GRAVENHAGE
The Dutch always put the address of the sender on the back of the
envelope. The abbreviation afz. stands for afzender. Note too that Dutch
names in de, den or van are capitalized only when initials are not mentioned
(see 2.5). In telephone books, library catalogues etc. such names are found
under the noun, not the preposition or article, i.e. Jan van der Linden is
listed as Linden, J. van den. Given the precision of a Dutch postcode, it
is not uncommon as a form of shorthand for the sender of a letter to
write their name followed simply by their postcode – this would be sufficient
information for the postman to be able to return the letter to the correct
address.
The letter
Address and date
The date is placed in the top right-hand corner under the sender’s address,
but the latter is not always included in less formal letters as it is always
written on the back of the envelope:
10 september 1977
There is no dot after the numeral, nor is there a small e or ste/de (the
abbreviations for ordinals) because in such expressions the cardinal numeral
is used in Dutch (see 14.9). The months are always written with small
letters.
The letter
385