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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] 44 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

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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] 0 points 1 year ago

https://www.nrk.no/video/f24fa47c-5214-4a6d-9eb0-7fb48cd9209d

[–] [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.

[–] Vinny_93 13 points 1 year 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 22 points 1 year ago

Yeah, this isn't an excuse.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 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 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 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?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year 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

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

Yeah probably :D

[–] 5dashes 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Germany is fine, but France is just dumb and no clue how Denmark got there

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 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...

[–] Ad4mWayn3 14 points 1 year ago

2² x 23

Prime factoring is the way

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 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 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

23/28/09 pure chaos

I prefer to sort my dates descending.

28/23/09 = 28 Sept 2023

11/09/01 = >!Jan 9 2011!<

[–] Sylvartas 3 points 1 year ago

But it makes no sense to us because we also say it the way we put it ("28 Septembre 2023", Aka 28/09/2023)...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I was pretty convinced this was a joke until I got to the comments.

[–] slazer2au 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Nope it's so damn annoying in the Netherlands having to say 45 as five fourty.