Denmark what the fuck are you doing
| # | 🇩🇰 |
|---|---|
| 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“.
German "halb acht" only refers to time tho.
Ours too. Just giving another example of this counting principle to show it's not confined to Danish numbers.
Dude their 4 is fire.
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.
Yeah, this isn't an excuse.
Germany and France are already stupid, but Denmark combines them and makes it even worse.
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...
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).
I was pretty convinced this was a joke until I got to the comments.
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