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Numeral compounds
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Numbers can be put together to form higher numbers. The semantics deviates from usual compounding in that it is not intersective. It may be additive, as in njoggentjin nine-teen 19, where the number 9 is added to the number 10. Or it is multiplicative, as in njoggenhûndert nine-hundred 900, which is nine times one hundred.

A great many complex numbers could be qualified as binumeral expressions, following the pattern of binomial expressions, biverbal expressions or biadjectival expressions. Such constructions all contain a coordinative conjunction en and. An numeral example is fjouwerentweintich twenty-four.

In the system of fractions, we also see a form of compounding, as in twafiifde two-five.SUFF 2/5, although such expressions are officially spelled as different words, hence as twa fiifde.

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For expository reasons, the grammatical features of the numeral system have been presented in their totality in the part on Inflection, where also some information on compounding can be found:

  • For compounding in cardinals, see the first three sections of the topic on cardinal numbers.
  • For compounding in fractions, see the topic on fractions.

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