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| Josquin Heptaglot Senior Member Germany Joined 4846 days ago 2266 posts - 3992 votes  Speaks: German*, English, French, Latin, Italian, Russian, Swedish Studies: Japanese, Irish, Portuguese, Persian | Message 9 of 25 13 September 2013 at 12:08pm | IP Logged | ||
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"Dutzend" in German.
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| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4709 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 11 of 25 13 September 2013 at 1:03pm | IP Logged | ||
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Gros is also 144 in Dutch ("een gros") but it's never used in that context, what it IS
used as is "the majority of" (het gros van de mensen...) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| eetusjo Diglot Newbie Finland Joined 4260 days ago 7 posts - 15 votes Speaks: Finnish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Swedish | Message 12 of 25 13 September 2013 at 1:09pm | IP Logged | ||
"Tusina" in Finnish. It's pretty rarely used but for example eggs are still usually sold in dozens. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| beano Diglot Senior Member United KingdomRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4624 days ago 1049 posts - 2152 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Russian, Serbian, Hungarian | Message 13 of 25 13 September 2013 at 1:42pm | IP Logged | ||
Yes, in the UK we still buy eggs by the dozen. Traditional butchers and bakers also use the term widely when dealing in sausages, bread rolls, cakes etc. You can also say things like Starbucks has dozens of outlets in London, meaning lots. We still use old imperial weights and measures in many walks of life. I've noticed that "pound" still exists in other languages (ein Pfund, un Livre) but it has been metricised to 500g, whereas the original weight amounted to 454g. Edited by beano on 13 September 2013 at 1:45pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| eetusjo Diglot Newbie Finland Joined 4260 days ago 7 posts - 15 votes Speaks: Finnish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Swedish | Message 14 of 25 13 September 2013 at 2:30pm | IP Logged | ||
In my experience, dozen, in the sense of "lots", can also be found especially in older finnish literature. Recently it has been replaced by "kymmenittäin" (tens of). (..tens of outlets etc.) Edited by eetusjo on 13 September 2013 at 2:32pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| caam_imt Triglot Senior Member Mexico Joined 4864 days ago 232 posts - 357 votes Speaks: Spanish*, EnglishC2, Finnish Studies: German, Swedish | Message 15 of 25 13 September 2013 at 3:14pm | IP Logged | ||
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Spanish has "docena" for 12 and "decena" for 10.
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 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6705 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map | Message 16 of 25 13 September 2013 at 3:33pm | IP Logged | ||
It actually seems that they did: 21 would be "ān and twentig" or "ān and twentigoða" according to Wikipedia. But 100 would be "hund, hundred, hundtēontig; hundtēontigoða" and 120 "hundtwelftig; hundtwelftigoða". Edited by Iversen on 13 September 2013 at 3:34pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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