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How to say the number 92 (i.imgur.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/mapporn
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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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 14 points 1 year ago

Dude their 4 is fire.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

German "halb acht" only refers to time tho.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

seks lol

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

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