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How to say the number 92 (i.imgur.com)
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[–] HerbalGamer@lemm.ee 23 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Denmark what the fuck are you doing

[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de 14 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (4 children)
# 🇩🇰
1 en
2 to
3 tre
4 fire
5 fem
6 seks
7 syv
8 otte
9 ni
10 ti
11 elleve
12 tolv
13 tretten
14 fjorten
15 femten
16 seksten
17 sytten
18 atten
19 nitten
20 tyve
21 enogtyve (oneandtwenty)
22 toogtyve (twoandtwenty)
30 tredive
40 fyrre
50 halvtreds
60 tres (threes[core])
70 halvfjerds (½fourths[core])
80 firs (fours[core])
90 halvfems (½fifths[core])
92 tooghalvfems (twoand½fifths[core])
100 hundred

The 4½ = ●●●●◖ = [four +] ½fifth is not unique to Danish. In Czech, we say „čtvrt na osm“ (quarter to eight), „půl osmé“ (half of eighth) and „tři čtvrtě na osm“ (¾ to eight) to mean 19:15, 19:30 and 19:45, respectively, so I kinda get it.
Similarly, in German, 🕢=„halb acht“.

[–] fantoski@lemmy.world 14 points 11 months ago

Dude their 4 is fire.

[–] Hanabie@sh.itjust.works 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

German "halb acht" only refers to time tho.

[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de 3 points 11 months ago

Ours too. Just giving another example of this counting principle to show it's not confined to Danish numbers.

[–] darcy@sh.itjust.works -3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

seks lol

[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de 2 points 11 months ago

German has the same problem but they can differentiate sechs/Sex by using halbduzend/Geschlechtsverkehr.

[–] Chariotwheel@kbin.social 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Germany and France are already stupid, but Denmark combines them and makes it even worse.

[–] Poiar@sh.itjust.works 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Yeah.. This is not the right way Danes say it.

It's not tooghalvfemsindstyvende

It's more like toårhalfæms. Nobody says sindstyvende, only people who don't know the language...

[–] Anamana@feddit.de 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

I think the German solution works better for the German language. 'neunzigundzwei' sounds worse than 'zweiundneunzig' or at least less flowy. But I'm obv biased by being German lol and this is just one example.

[–] Chariotwheel@kbin.social 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I think that's just because you're used to it.

I am German too and it would feel weird, but our way of saying it is really weird, when considered.

Especially if you add a hundred.

137

One-hundred seven and thirty

It's just uselessly jumping around.

[–] drcobaltjedi@programming.dev 1 points 11 months ago

You know, I was willing to defend you Germans here assuming you just said the numbers right to left, but no. Now I'm not going to.

[–] CommunicationOk3492@feddit.de 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, I think we’re just biased. If it would have been always the other way around, we probably would think it’s the flowy way to say it xD

[–] Anamana@feddit.de 1 points 11 months ago

Yeah probably :D

[–] Vinny_93@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

And ninety, halvfems, short for halvfemsindstyve or halv-fem-sinds-tyve, means “fifth half times twenty”, or “four scores plus half of the fifth score” [4½ * 20].

I think the Britons used scores as well for some time.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Yeah, this isn't an excuse.