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How to read and speak dates, decimals, monetary information, and official time

Dates:

Divided by periods (US) / full stops (UK), dates are given in the order of day/month/year and read as ordinal numbers with the appropriate adjective endings. Note: It is standard practice in American English to write the date in m/d/order, while in British English and most other languages, when expressed in numerals the date is written in d/m/y order.

Examples:

Letters usually bear the date and location in the upper right corner:

Decimals

Unlike in Englsih, where decimals are indicated by a point (.), in German, decimals are indicated by a comma (,). Examples:

Monetary information and official time-telling

18,30 DM is read as Achzehn Mark dreißig or Achzehn Mark und dreißig Pfennig.

57,28 S is read as Siebenundfünfzig Schilling achtundzwanzig or Siebenundfünfzig Schilling und achtundzwanzig Groschen.

17, 08 FR is read as Siebzehn Franken und acht Rappen.

45,20 € is read as Fünfundvierzig Euro zwanzig.

Similarly, 19.25 Uhr is read as Neunzehn Uhr fünfundzwanzig.

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