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>Can you say that the same about English? It's similar but I don't think it qualifies as the same since we do not say "four tens". Forty is a concept in itself
by frankfrankfrank 5y ago
>Can you say that the same about English?
It's similar but I don't think it qualifies as the same since we do not say "four tens". Forty is a concept in itself, just like suffix -s for plural is a separate concept from singular. Suffixes and prefixes are modifiers. We don't ordinarily say, for example, "many apple", we say "apples".
- rahimnathwani 5y agoWhen I say eight-ten in Chinese, my mind is thinking of the singular concept '80', not 8 tens. The same as when I say eight-y in English.