tienduizend

Tienduizend is the Dutch word for the cardinal number 10,000. It is written as a single compound word and used to denote the quantity ten thousand in everyday language and formal writing. Examples include 'tienduizend inwoners' and 'tienduizend euro'. The plural form tienduizenden is used when referring to large, non-specific quantities, as in 'tienduizenden mensen' (tens of thousands of people). The ordinal form is tienduizendste, meaning the ten-thousandth.

Etymology: It is formed from tien (ten) and duizend (thousand), both of Germanic origin. The construction is analogous to other Dutch large-number compounds such as twintigduizend (twenty thousand) and honderdduizend (one hundred thousand).

Usage notes: In modern Dutch, tienduizend is common in formal statistics, journalism, and literature. In everyday speech, speakers might approximate large counts with expressions like 'tienduizenden' or 'rond tienduizend' (around ten thousand). In written numbers, the standard thousands separator in Dutch is a dot, as in 10.000.

Numeral representations: In Roman numerals, very large numbers are sometimes shown with a bar over the numeral; ten thousand is represented as X̄. In common writing, Arabic numerals with the Dutch thousands separator are used, e.g., 10.000.