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1,5 year or 1,5 years? Which variant is correct?
11 août 2018 19:49
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Yes to Hannah's answer above but also, if you want to use American English, you'd use periods instead of commas. 1.5
11 août 2018
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You would usually read this as "one point five years." 0.186 years would be read as "oh point one eight six years."
In a special case where we recognize the decimal as a commonly-occuring fraction, we might read it that way: "one-and-a-half years."
I was about to say that we only use "year" for the exact period of one year. " That isn't quite true because we also say "half a year," and "a quarter of a year." I could invent a rule for this, but I won't.
As other have noted, In the US we use commas to group thousands, and decimals to separate the whole part from the decimal fraction: $1,234,567.89; so your number would be written as "1.5 years."
11 août 2018
1
1,5 YEARS. And if you speak it, you'd say "one and a half years", not "one and a half year". (By the way, you can also say "a year and a half" but in your case you'll need the s.)
:)
11 août 2018
1.5 years later he decided to move on..
After a 1.5 year stay, he moved on.
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I'll be back in 1.5 years.
It's a 1.5 year sabatical.
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At 1.5 years, she was ready to read.
As a 1.5 year old she was ready to read.
11 août 2018
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