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How to say the number 92 (i.imgur.com)

submitted 2 years ago by genfood@feddit.de to c/mapporn@lemmy.world

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[–] HerbalGamer@lemm.ee 23 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Denmark what the fuck are you doing

[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de 14 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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 2 years ago

Dude their 4 is fire.

[–] Hanabie@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

German "halb acht" only refers to time tho.

[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de 3 points 2 years 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 2 years ago (1 children)

seks lol

[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de 2 points 2 years ago

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

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

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

[–] Poiar@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years ago

Yeah probably :D

[–] Vinny_93@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years 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 2 years ago

Yeah, this isn't an excuse.