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Just a Number
So, uh, yeah. We have the same number system as everybody else, but we say the numbers a bit funny here in Denmark. Swedes and especially Norwegians love to make fun of that.
In case you’re wondering what numbers Denmark is saying it’s:
10 cows, 34 pigs, 52 chickens, 193 eggs, 261 nuts, which he then changes to 371 nuts.
Not even Danes will recognize these numbers the way I wrote them in English, but I was being an extreme pronunciation nazi and writing them almost exactly like they’re said in Danish.
The thing that really confuse our Northern neighbors is that with a number like 52 we don’t say “fifty two” but “two and fifty” which sounds like “two fifty”. And our word for fifty sounds like “half sixty” and 90 sounds like “half fives” and it just goes on like that.
You are allowed to be confused. And Norway had to put up with that for 300 years.
16th June 2010
637 Comments:
14 hours ago #8834464
@mannmitgesicht
Many people don't know, but it comes from old time and it works a bit like the french system.
The danish word for 70 is "halvfjerds" which sound like "half fours". That is because you for some reason count in twenties. So 70 is half through the fourth twenty.
Therefor half fours ;)
The thing with half-sixty is because the word for 60 is "tres", which refer to 3 twenties (the word for 3 is "tre" and then you apparently put a "s" on).
So 50 which is "halvtreds" (don't know why the D is added) sound like half-sixty, because it means half through the third twenty
Hope you understood some of it xD
@mannmitgesicht
Many people don't know, but it comes from old time and it works a bit like the french system.
The danish word for 70 is "halvfjerds" which sound like "half fours". That is because you for some reason count in twenties. So 70 is half through the fourth twenty.
Therefor half fours ;)
The thing with half-sixty is because the word for 60 is "tres", which refer to 3 twenties (the word for 3 is "tre" and then you apparently put a "s" on).
So 50 which is "halvtreds" (don't know why the D is added) sound like half-sixty, because it means half through the third twenty
Hope you understood some of it xD
17 hours ago #8834431
One hundred three half fives = 193?
Three hundred one half fours = 371?
No offense, but that is absolutely mental.
One hundred three half fives = 193?
Three hundred one half fours = 371?
No offense, but that is absolutely mental.
5 days ago #8829338
@TingeltangelMoni I noticed that when I took German in high school. The messed up thing is I remembered none of the German I took except for Good morning and the counting, and thank you.... I suck at languages....
@TingeltangelMoni I noticed that when I took German in high school. The messed up thing is I remembered none of the German I took except for Good morning and the counting, and thank you.... I suck at languages....
10 days ago #8822747
I don't know if anybody has mentioned it already, but actually here you see the thing Germany has in common with Denmark.
Our numbersystem works also like that.
We say:
52 = two and fifty.
137 = hundred seven and thirty
I don't know if anybody has mentioned it already, but actually here you see the thing Germany has in common with Denmark.
Our numbersystem works also like that.
We say:
52 = two and fifty.
137 = hundred seven and thirty
17 days ago #8813616
LOL It reminds me of the way French numbers work. 70 literally translated is "sixty ten," 80 is "four twenty" and 90 is "four twenty ten." So if you say "95" in french, the literal translation would be "four twenty ten five."
LOL It reminds me of the way French numbers work. 70 literally translated is "sixty ten," 80 is "four twenty" and 90 is "four twenty ten." So if you say "95" in french, the literal translation would be "four twenty ten five."
18 days ago #8812218
I understand the way you place the numbers when you speak them (at least until we go over nine-and-ninety), but I don't understand some of the numbers themselves. Half-sixty? Half-fives? What the hell, Denmark?
I understand the way you place the numbers when you speak them (at least until we go over nine-and-ninety), but I don't understand some of the numbers themselves. Half-sixty? Half-fives? What the hell, Denmark?
21 days ago #8807202
How can anyone understand that?! XD And this is coming from a girl who grew up in a place where directions are given in time!
How can anyone understand that?! XD And this is coming from a girl who grew up in a place where directions are given in time!
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