How are these numbers
1052, 1053, 1052, 1058, 1552, 1552, 1870 and 1880
pronounced / written in the context of a year of a particular date in german?
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1052, 1053, 1052, 1058, 1552, 1552, 1870 and 1880
pronounced / written in the context of a year of a particular date in german?
You probably mean the exception, when it is usual to say "Fünfzehnhundertzweiundfünfzig" for 1552, instead of "Eintausendfünfhundertzweiundfünfzig" when used in the context of a particular dates year.
That's kind of a short form for "Im Jahr(e) Eintausendfünfhundertzweiundfünfzig" and comes from the common use to measure historical timespans in centuries.
The build rules are very similar as for the english military time where zero minutes are spelled out as hundred (e.g. (zero)ninehundred for 9:00AM, elevenhundred for 11:00AM or eighteenhundred for 6:00PM), but 1000 - 1099 make an exception. We say e.g. "Tausenddreiundfünfzig", "Tausendachtundziebzig" in that context.
Thus your date year numbers would be pronounced / written as