• ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.deEnglish
      7·
      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
      0·
      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.

      • Poiar@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2·
        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…

      • Anamana@feddit.deEnglish
        0·
        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
          2·
          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.

        • CommunicationOk3492@feddit.deEnglish
          1·
          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

  • Barbarian@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    4·
    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).