• ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.deEnglish
      18·
      9 months 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·
      9 months 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·
        9 months 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·
    9 months 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
    94·
    9 months 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.

    • huginn@feddit.itEnglish
      5·
      9 months 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@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      9 months 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)…