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Basit İngilizce açıklama: A group of twelve people or things.

• I bought a dozen eggs.
• She baked two dozen cookies.
• We need half a dozen chairs for the meeting.

Nasıl kullanılır: a dozen + plural noun (She bought a dozen roses.); dozen of + determiner/pronoun (A dozen of the guests stayed overnight.)

Eş anlamlılar: twelve

Sık kullanılan kalıplar: a dozen eggs, half a dozen, by the dozen

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Basit İngilizce açıklama: A large number of people or things, usually expressed with the plural form.

• Dozens of people came to the party.
• I have told you dozens of times.
• She received dozens of messages after the interview.

Nasıl kullanılır: dozens of + plural noun (Dozens of people waited outside.)

Eş anlamlılar: a large number, a great many

Sık kullanılan kalıplar: dozen messages, dozen times, dozen people