# 'then' or 'than' **URL:** \ **Category:** random\ **Created:** [May 14, 2003, 7:54am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/then-or-than/20866 "2003-05-14T07:54:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Kajinku](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/94ad74/32.png) [@Kajinku](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Kajinku)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2003, 7:54am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/then-or-than/20866/1 "2003-05-14T07:54:36Z")
OK boys and girls, let’s do a grammar lesson. When writing in English I always have the same problem: when do I have to use ‘then’ or ‘than’? Someone told me once “An easy tip to remember this is to ask yourself ‘when?’. If this question makes sense with your sentence, you use THEN. See? Wh **e** n - Th **e** n.” Uhuh, very nice. So, seriously, eh?! ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2003, 8:14am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/then-or-than/20866/2 "2003-05-14T08:14:13Z")
U use “than” when comparing things, for example: This forum is cooler **than** all other forums on the net. U use “then” in relationship to time (an order of events), for example: I did all the tutorials on Kirupa and **then** I became a flash genius. (cough, cough) Get the idea? If u want more examples just ask, okie? 😉 =) D 😛 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2003, 8:47am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/then-or-than/20866/3 "2003-05-14T08:47:34Z")
Ah, thanks 🙂 … the ‘when’ - ‘then’ rule actually makes sense _then_! :crazy: ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2003, 8:49am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/then-or-than/20866/4 "2003-05-14T08:49:52Z")
Yup, it does ;). D 😛 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2003, 9:19am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/then-or-than/20866/5 "2003-05-14T09:19:14Z")
Now teach us a bit of your language :beam: - Soul :s: ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2003, 9:37am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/then-or-than/20866/6 "2003-05-14T09:37:47Z")
OK 🙂 Dutch or French? My Italian is not very fresh anymore…it’s been 10 years, but I’m learning it again now, so it won’t be for now. Anyway, let’s pick Dutch. First lesson - pay attention! :cool: The Kirupa forum is a fun place! De Kirupa forum is een leuke plaats! Soul & Kit, sitting in a tree… Soul & Kit, zitten in een boom… 😛 j/k What do you want to know? Oh, you meant Romanian? :beam: ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2003, 9:46am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/then-or-than/20866/7 "2003-05-14T09:46:24Z")
Haha very funny 😛 Zitten in een boom heheh sounds funny :beam: - Soul :s: ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2003, 9:48am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/then-or-than/20866/8 "2003-05-14T09:48:18Z")
> \*Originally posted by Kajinku \* > \*\*Soul & Kit, sitting in a tree… > Soul & Kit, zitten in een boom… > \*\* _laughs so hard!_ ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2003, 9:49am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/then-or-than/20866/9 "2003-05-14T09:49:41Z")
And the rest of it? 😛 It almost sounds like and English person trying to do a German accent but saying English words. 🙂 Hang on, did that make any sense? :sure: Like the Germans in Allo Allo (if anyone else remembers that). ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2003, 9:52am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/then-or-than/20866/10 "2003-05-14T09:52:11Z")
Not at all. 😛 Dutch sounds like German, it’s just not so…erm… “hard” or “military” if you want. Alo Alo is awesome, guuud meu’ning. 😉 Oh, I don’t know the rest of the song… if you tell me in English, I’ll translate it. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2003, 9:59am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/then-or-than/20866/11 "2003-05-14T09:59:10Z")
My uncle’s girlfriend is Dutch… When she talks I can almost understand what she says (I’m pretty good at German) but sometimes it throws me completely. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2003, 10:54am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/then-or-than/20866/12 "2003-05-14T10:54:37Z")
Goed om te weten. Vanaf nu kan ik dus tegen jou Nederlands spreken, je verstaat het toch door je goede kennis van het Duits… Ik geloof dat er nog iemand is op de forum die Nederlands spreekt of verstaat… hij heeft een koe als avatar. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2003, 11:02am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/then-or-than/20866/13 "2003-05-14T11:02:54Z")
_wonders what he said_ :-\ Is it about me? - Soul :s: ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2003, 11:04am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/then-or-than/20866/14 "2003-05-14T11:04:42Z")
\*\*\*\* man, I’m not \that\ good… 😛 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2003, 11:12am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/then-or-than/20866/15 "2003-05-14T11:12:20Z")
?? What did it mean? - Soul :s: ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2003, 11:15am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/then-or-than/20866/16 "2003-05-14T11:15:49Z")
Beats the hell out of me. 🙂 Something about talking on forums, but we might have to ask for the full translation. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2003, 11:23am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/then-or-than/20866/17 "2003-05-14T11:23:06Z")
I can imagine that _hearing_ is something very different than _reading_… 😛 What I wrote was very basic, blah blah stuff, nothing special. Here’s the translation anyway: _Goed om te weten. Vanaf nu kan ik dus tegen jou Nederlands spreken, je verstaat het toch door je goede kennis van het Duits… Ik geloof dat er nog iemand is op de forum die Nederlands spreekt of verstaat… hij heeft een koe als avatar._ **Good to know. From now on I can speak to you in Dutch, since you have a good knowlegde of German… I believe there’s another person on the forum that speaks or understands Dutch… he has a cow in his avatar.** OK, now let’s do French! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2003, 11:25am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/then-or-than/20866/18 "2003-05-14T11:25:37Z")
No way, I stopped learning French when I was 13! If you talk in German I should probably understand most of that. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2003, 11:33am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/then-or-than/20866/19 "2003-05-14T11:33:20Z")
Hm, my German is even worse than my Italian. It’s odd, I know, 'cause Dutch and German are so much alike, but still… Reading and understanding is no problem, but writing… Allons, allons, ne soit pas timide! Un peu de français ne peut pas te faire de mal! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2003, 11:36am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/then-or-than/20866/20 "2003-05-14T11:36:19Z")
Er… “Come come, don’t be so shy, a little French won’t hurt you”? [Next page](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/then-or-than/20866.md?page=2)