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| Doitsujin Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 5321 days ago 1256 posts - 2363 votes  Speaks: German*, English | Message 9 of 13 22 February 2014 at 7:02pm | IP Logged | ||
On the plus side, if you ever master the German way of counting ones and tens, you won't have problems with Arabic numerals later on, because they use the same system. :-) 62 = zwei-und-sechzig = ٦٢ ithnān[i] wa-sittūn[a] (اِثْنَانِ وَسِتُّونَ) Edited by Doitsujin on 22 February 2014 at 7:08pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Bao Diglot Senior Member Germany tinyurl.com/pe4kqe5 Joined 5767 days ago 2256 posts - 4046 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: French, Spanish, Japanese, Mandarin | Message 10 of 13 22 February 2014 at 9:19pm | IP Logged | ||
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I used to do the same when having to get numbers correct, for example when helping my mum to enter accounting data. Actually, I often just switch to saying sechzig-und-zwei in that situation, because it's more efficient to encode the information that way than having to double-check again and again.
Oh, and the French thing is true. I think many Swiss French speakers at least use septante, seventy, and not sixty-and-ten. Doitsujin, but do they also put hundreds *before* ones when dealing with larger digits? That's the silly thing about German ... 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Doitsujin Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 5321 days ago 1256 posts - 2363 votes Speaks: German*, English | Message 11 of 13 23 February 2014 at 12:08am | IP Logged | ||
It's pretty much like in German; however, they also add "and" (Arabic "wa") between hundreds and thousands etc. Here's an example (I omitted the case endings to keep it simple): 1759 = Alf (1000) wa sabʿumiʾa (700) wa tisʿa (9) wa khamsūn (60) They also have one odd feature. If the last two digits are 01, they simply repeat the counted noun instead of adding "one." The most famous example is "The Arabian Nights" AKA "1001 Nights," which is "Alf layla wa layla" literally "1000 night and night" in Arabic. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Bao Diglot Senior Member Germany tinyurl.com/pe4kqe5 Joined 5767 days ago 2256 posts - 4046 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: French, Spanish, Japanese, Mandarin | Message 12 of 13 23 February 2014 at 2:58am | IP Logged | ||
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... I like me the Sinitic system.
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| Medulin Tetraglot Senior Member Croatia Joined 4669 days ago 1199 posts - 2192 votes Speaks: Croatian*, English, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Norwegian, Hindi, Nepali | Message 13 of 13 23 February 2014 at 7:52pm | IP Logged | ||
 Edited by Medulin on 23 February 2014 at 7:52pm 3 persons have voted this message useful |
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