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French: vingt trois (twenty three) German: drei und zwanzig (three and twenty)
by bbg 17y ago
French: vingt trois (twenty three)
German: drei und zwanzig (three and twenty)
- ars 17y agoI thought it was french that did something like "three twenties and a ten" for seventy? Am I thinking of some other language?
- kgrin 17y agoThat's true enough (93 = "quatre-vingt-dix trois" = "four twenties and three"), but it's still the case that the more significant digit is listed first - it's just composed by multiplying.
- deleted 17y ago[deleted]
- akamaka 17y agoFor the record, 93 is quatre-vingt-treize ("four twenties and thirteen")
- peterbraden 17y agothe Swiss French dialect has a far nicer system - they say neufant trois, this is fairly colloquial though.
- chancho 17y agoEnglish: Sing a song of sixpence a pocket full of rye, Four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie.