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Denmark what the fuck are you doing
# 🇩🇰 1 en 2 to 3 tre 4 fire 5 fem 6 seks 7 syv 8 otte 9 ni 10 ti 11 elleve 12 tolv 13 tretten 14 fjorten 15 femten 16 seksten 17 sytten 18 atten 19 nitten 20 tyve 21 enogtyve (oneandtwenty) 22 toogtyve (twoandtwenty) 30 tredive 40 fyrre 50 halvtreds 60 tres (threes[core]) 70 halvfjerds (½fourths[core]) 80 firs (fours[core]) 90 halvfems (½fifths[core]) 92 tooghalvfems (twoand½fifths[core]) 100 hundred The 4½ = ●●●●◖ = [four +] ½fifth is not unique to Danish. In Czech, we say „čtvrt na osm“ (quarter to eight), „půl osmé“ (half of eighth) and „tři čtvrtě na osm“ (¾ to eight) to mean
19:15
,19:30
and19:45
, respectively, so I kinda get it.
Similarly, in German, 🕢=„halb acht“.seks lol
German has the same problem but they can differentiate sechs/Sex by using halbduzend/Geschlechtsverkehr.
German “halb acht” only refers to time tho.
Ours too. Just giving another example of this counting principle to show it’s not confined to Danish numbers.