Vitalina is right, also as a little addition: normally they write "Eén" = 1 or "één", normally they never put an accent sign on a capital character, so "É" is wrong, it should be written: "Eén" @Vitalina: it is: "Ik neem één appel en twee peren." Since you take only 1 apple it is only 1 "appel", saying "appels" written with an "s" is plural, which means you would have more than 1 apple. So : one apple = "één appel" or two apples = "twee appels" . Best regards.

you should use "een" as an article. e.g. : een varken, een poes, een hond you should use "één" as 1, as a number. e.g. Ik neem één appels en twee peren.

Thanks! It did help, though it also confused me a bit I've searched for sounds in a web I use sometimes... Seems like "een" sounds a bit like French "un", though a little more towards Spanish "en". And "één" more like English -ain in "slain"... Well, I guess I'll get it right eventually. Thanks for the warning. I hope some day I can help you for a change :P

As an addition, note that there is a pronounciation difference between the two. I can't really tell you exactly what either are like, but I'll give my best attempt to aproximate the difference. The é accent makes sounds longer, unlike the é accent in Spanish. So ''één'' becomes a long eeeee sound. On the other hand, ''een'' is not a long sound, and sounds pretty much like ''uhn''. But it is much better to hear the sounds. So you should just listen carefully when someone says these words. I think the main point is understandable though. I hope it helped a bit! ;D