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| Ponape Pentaglot Groupie Spain Joined 5964 days ago 42 posts - 58 votes  Speaks: Spanish*, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Greek, Basque, Swahili, Tagalog, Arabic (classical), Quechua, Vietnamese, Turkish, Korean, Serbo-Croatian, Hindi | Message 1 of 4 04 October 2012 at 10:13pm | IP Logged |
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Hello! Sometimes it is difficult to find some things in language materials, and it is
faster to ask here. How do you read years in Dutch, for example 1986 or 2012? Could you please write the way in which they are read? And how do you read days? For example, February 1st or September 27th? Ordinal/cardinal number? Many thanks in advance. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Josquin Heptaglot Senior Member Germany Joined 4846 days ago 2266 posts - 3992 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Latin, Italian, Russian, Swedish Studies: Japanese, Irish, Portuguese, Persian | Message 2 of 4 04 October 2012 at 10:33pm | IP Logged |
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Years: in two blocks of 'tens' except for the 21st century.
1986 - negentien zesentachtig 2012 - tweeduizend twaalf Days: Cardinal numbers Febuary 1st - één februari September 27th - zeventwintig september At least this is the way I have learnt it. Maybe a native speaker can confirm this. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4709 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 3 of 4 04 October 2012 at 10:45pm | IP Logged |
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Correct, you can also say
"de zevenentwintigste september" for 27e september. Officieel is het negentienhonderdenzesentachtig. But negentien zesentachtig for short. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| jintro Diglot Newbie Belgium Joined 5874 days ago 16 posts - 32 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English Studies: German, French | Message 4 of 4 05 October 2012 at 8:24pm | IP Logged |
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Just adding that the Battle of Hastings (1066) happened in "duizend-zesenzestig", not "tien-zestig", so the first century of a millenium is an exception to the general rule.
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