숫자를 결합한 형용사

[Compound Adjectives with Numbers]

숫자를 결합한 동사를 활용하면, 긴 문장도 간결하게 표현을 할 수 있다.

아래의 예를 보면, 첫 문장과 같은 표현을 두번째 문장과 같이 간결하게 표현할 수 있다.

-    주의할 점은, 숫자 뒤에 있던 명사를 복수에서 단수로 바꾸어 주어야 한다는 것이다.

My company has a history that is 5000 years old. => My company has a 5000 year history.

Examples

She lives in an apartment with two bedrooms. => She lives in a two bedroom apartment. It takes ten minutes to walk there from here. => It's a ten-minute walk from here. A bill worth ten dollars. => A ten dollars bill. A lesson that is three hours long. => A three hour lesson. A flight that takes three hours. => A three hour flight. A dinner with four courses. => A four course dinner. A delay of twenty minutes. => A twenty minute delay. A vacation for two weeks. => A two week vacation. A walk that is three kilometer long. => A three kilometer walk. A house with fifteen rooms => A fifteen-room house. A car that costs fifty thousand dollars. => A fifty thousand dollar car. A marriage that lasted twenty years. => A twenty year marriage.