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14.1.1.5<br />

‘One in every ten (people)’ etc. is said een op de tien (mensen), but ‘nine<br />

out of every ten (people)’ etc. is negen van de tien (mensen).<br />

14.1.1.6<br />

The English word ‘number’ can be rendered in several ways in Dutch:<br />

het telwoord is a numeral as in hoofdtelwoorden ‘cardinal<br />

numerals’ and rangtelwoorden ‘ordinal<br />

numerals’.<br />

het nummer is a number allotted to a person, room, place etc.<br />

as in telefoonnummer or Hij woont op<br />

nummer 5 ‘He lives at number 5’.<br />

het cijfer is a figure, cipher (also a mark at school).<br />

het getal is an arithmetical number, getallen optellen<br />

‘to add up numbers’.<br />

het aantal refers to a quantity, i.e. een aantal boeken<br />

‘a number of books’.<br />

Note: Strictly speaking een aantal ‘a number of’ + plural noun requires a<br />

singular verb, but it is commonly followed by a verb in the plural. The<br />

same confusion occurs here in English:<br />

Een aantal mensen heeft /hebben het al gezien.<br />

A number of people have already seen it.<br />

Een aantal mensen is/zijn verdronken.<br />

A number of people (have) drowned.<br />

14.1.2<br />

14.1.2.1<br />

Derivatives of cardinals<br />

Een occurs as an inflected adjective, e.g. van de ene dag op de andere<br />

‘from one day to the next’.<br />

Cardinal<br />

numbers<br />

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