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27 days agoTo add to this, jealous is for example when you are afraid your partner will dump you for someone else.
To add to this, jealous is for example when you are afraid your partner will dump you for someone else.
It’s interesting because this also happens in other languages. In Dutch we only use couple (koppel) for people in a relationship.
If you are talking about other things we use “pair” if you have two. But over time people also started using pair wrong, so someone saying “ik heb een paar knikkers” I have a pair of marbles, can still mean he has 5 marbles.
In practice people usually just say I have two marbles when they mean exactly 2.