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Most (all?) Slavic languages just go oneteen twoteen. There's a word for 12 (tuzin) and 60 (kopa) but very rarely used. On the other hand we have a word for 1.
by ajuc 3y ago
Most (all?) Slavic languages just go oneteen twoteen. There's a word for 12 (tuzin) and 60 (kopa) but very rarely used.
On the other hand we have a word for 1.5 which is sorely missing in English - półtora.
On the other other hand English does weird stuff with thousands - saying 2300 as 23 hundred.
- gmac 3y agoHuh, tuzin is interestingly close to dozen.
- senkora 3y agoBoth appear to be derived from the same source: https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/Dutzend https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/Dutzend https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/tuzin https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/tuzin https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/dozen https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/dozen The most recent common ancestor is Old French “dozaine”, and ultimately it derives from Latin “duodecim”.
- TheMatten 3y ago> On the other other hand English does weird stuff with thousands - saying 2300 as 23 hundred. Czech often does the same thing though, both when counting and naming years - "devatenáct set osmdesát čtyři" is literally "nineteen hundred eighty four" There's "půldruha" and "poldruha" in Czech and Slovak too, but I feel like it loses competition to "jeden a půl/pol" in terms of usage.
- OnlyMortal 3y agoIt’s US English that pronounces it that way. I’d say, two thousand-three hundred. UK English.
- kalupa 3y agowhat about 2 point 3 kay ...
- kalupa 3y agoif you think that's "weird", then you should see the French 98: "quatre-vingt-dix-huit" -- (4*20)+10 8
- blntechie 3y ago2300 - 23 hundred is a spoken informal thing. Two thousand three hundred is another common usage which might be the 'proper' way.
- ajuc 3y agoYeah I know, but it blew my mind when I first heard it, because nobody splits the numbers like that in Polish. Probably because we have a postfix for hundreds, so 200, 300, etc are single words (dwieście, trzysta, etc). Maybe English could use -dred like that :) Thousand ninedred eighty four :)
- vGPU 3y agoIn Russian, the teens are 1-9 + “надцать” suffix. Which as far as I can understand literally means “a number from 11-19”. An example would be 12: dve [two] nadset [suffix meaning a number 11-19].