No. 5,004 in German
anderthalb
"Anderthalb" means "one and a half" in English.
In a sentence
Ich habe anderthalb Stunden auf den Bus gewartet.
I waited for the bus for one and a half hours.
The word 'anderthalb' refers to the quantity, indicating one and a half hours.
Das Kino ist anderthalb Kilometer von hier entfernt.
The cinema is one and a half kilometers away from here.
In this sentence, 'anderthalb' quantifies the distance in kilometers.
In anderthalb Monaten beginnt der Sommer.
Summer begins in one and a half months.
Here, 'anderthalb' is used to express a period of time measured in months.
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