Breakdown of Har kunden en talje på firs centimeter?
en
a / an (common)
have
to have
firs
eighty
kunden
the customer
centimeteren
the centimeter
taljen
the waist
på
of (a measurement or amount)
Questions & Answers about Har kunden en talje på firs centimeter?
Why do we use på instead of a word for 'of' in en talje på firs centimeter?
When specifying an exact measurement, age, or amount that acts as an attribute of a noun, Danish uses the preposition på. While English uses 'of' (a waist of 80 cm, a boy of 12 years), Danish requires på (en talje på firs centimeter, en dreng på tolv år). Using af here would be grammatically incorrect.
Since the quantity is eighty, why isn't the word centimeter pluralized?
In Danish, standard metric units of measurement typically do not take a plural ending when they immediately follow a number. Words like centimeter, meter, kilometer, and liter remain in their base singular form regardless of how large the number is.
As a quick refresher, how exactly does the word firs translate to eighty?
Danish uses a base-20 counting system for its higher tens. The word firs is a modern abbreviation of the older term firsindstyve, which literally translates to 'four times twenty' (fire times tyve).
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