• ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.deEnglish
      18·
      1 year ago
      # 🇩🇰
      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“.

    • Vinny_93@lemmy.worldEnglish
      141·
      1 year ago

      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.

      • Anamana@feddit.deEnglish
        8·
        1 year ago

        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
          8·
          1 year ago

          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.devEnglish
            2·
            1 year 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.

          • ngprc@feddit.deEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            Almost 30 and I still have issues pronouncing certain 2 digit numbers. Like 67. I sometimes need to think for a sec to pronounce it correctly. Spoke German all my life. The other way around would be much simpler for me but I also feel it’s weird.

            That aside: wtf is going on with the Danes?

            Edit: Just reread my own comment with my own example I came up with 10 seconds ago and struggle to pronounce it correctly in my mind.

        • virku@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          1 year ago

          I’m Norwegian and grew up in one of the yellow belts. I use the two ways of saying numbers interchangably. There are only small parts of Norway people might get mildly confused if I said two and ninety instead of ninetytwo.

          If German was to start counting the other way wouldn’t it be neunzigzwei and not neunzigundzwei?

        • CommunicationOk3492@feddit.deEnglish
          3·
          1 year ago

          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

        • 5dashes@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          1 year ago

          Why not ‘neunzigzwei’? Just omit the ‘und’.
          After all it’s ‘ninety-two’ in English.

      • Poiar@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        3·
        1 year 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…

  • Barbarian@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    11·
    1 year ago

    There’s an interesting nuance for Romanian. While talking formally, “Noua zeci si doi” (9 10s and 2) is perfectly fine, in informal speech most people just say “Noua-s doi” (9 'n 2).

  • omega_x3@lemmy.worldEnglish
    104·
    1 year ago

    And then all Germans France and Denmark will complain when people in the US use 09/28/23 which is the same order used for Sept 9th 2023 instead of 28/09/23 which backwards from the most logical of putting the most significant number first and the least significant number last 23/28/09.