P4: numbers & prepositions (CH37/38/39/40) Flashcards
(77 cards)
cardinal numbers
hoofdtelwoorden
- one, two, three, four, thirty-five
ordinal numbers
rangtelwoorden
- first, second, third, twentieth, thirty-fifth
hyphen
liggend streepje = verbindingsstreepje
a/one/and
a hundred/million, billion (=miljard)
one thousand/two thousand
two hundred and twenty-five
comma
used to separate thousands
full stop
- used before decimals
- separate units of money €3.50 (three euro fifty)
- saparate units of time 8.15am (eight fifteen)
%
UK: per cent
US: percent
honderden
hundreds of
duizenden
thousands of
honderdduizenden
hundreds of thousands of
miljarden jaren
billions of years
prononciation of ‘0’ (4)
- zero; temperatures + percentages + writing
- oh; telephone numbers + bank account numbers
- nil; in most sports scores + writing
- love; in tennis
tientallen
dozens; tientallen boeken = dozens of books
fractions (3)
breuken
* ordinal number is put in the plural + hyphen (2/3 = two-thirds)
Exception: ‘one’ => one third 1/3
* fractions followed by singular word => verb = singular (two-thirds of the country was…)
* fraction followed by plural word => verb = plural (two-thirds of the poorest people are women)
writing dates (4)
- 23 November
- November 23
- 23rd November
- November 23rd
keer/maal (2)
- refering to time => once/twice/three times
* arirthmetic => (wiskundig/rekenkundig) times in multiplacations; two times four is eight
preposition
voorzetsel
aan een rivier
on a river
aan zee
by the sea
rijk aan mineralen
rich in minerals
voldoen aan
comply with
as
in the capacity of ( He worked as a waiter)
like
in the same way (He behaved like the boss)
except
excludes something
