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After looking up some German for beginners (German speakers, feel free to correct me), I found out that 1042 is read like "one thousand two and forty".
by ahomescu1 11y ago
After looking up some German for beginners (German speakers, feel free to correct me), I found out that 1042 is read like "one thousand two and forty".
- mschulze 11y agoGerman speaker here, that's correct. When the number is between 1000-1999 the "one" in "one thousand" is sometimes omitted, so "thousand two and forty".
- DavidSJ 11y agoAlso known as middle endian.
- mitchty 11y agoEven if its weird, its nothing like French numerals.
- Joky 11y agoAren't the only weirdness in French 70, 80 and 90? That's nothing compared to German :)
- smcl 11y agoGeorgian has a fun number system too - numbers between 20-90 are expressed as a multiple of 20 + a number between 1 and 19: http://blog.conjugate.cz/georgian-is-fun http://blog.conjugate.cz/georgian-is-fun
- mitchty 11y agoIts weird its not consistent! :D The german thing is just weird until you get used to it, with french I constantly go, wait, crap this is over 70, whats the deal again. I blame the wine consumption.
- tallanvor 11y agoCan't be worse than Dutch counting!