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minus-square@PlutoniumAcidlink8•edit-211 months agoDane here. We don’t use half-third to say 2½ except for the time of day, like half-twelve is 11:30. The way we count is indeed that way though: halvfems is short for halvfemsindstyve, literally half-five-times-twenty, meaning ½5×20 = 4.5×20 = 90. We don’t use “fems” tough. That would mean femsindstyve which is 5*20 and we say a hundred of course. So we have this: 10 = ti = ten 20 = tyve = twenty. 30 = tredive = thirty. 40 = fyrre = forty. 50 = halvtreds = short for half-three-times-twenty. 60 = treds = short for three times twenty. 70 = halvfjerds = short for half four times twenty. 80 = firs = short for four times twenty. 90 = halvfems = short for half five times twenty. 97 syvoghalvfems = seven and half five times twenty. 100 = et hundrede = One hundred.
minus-square@nicolairathjenlink2•edit-211 months agoThere is a relic from this system still in use: halvanden (1 and a half). Though I doubt many people know the origin of the word.
Dane here. We don’t use half-third to say 2½ except for the time of day, like half-twelve is 11:30.
The way we count is indeed that way though: halvfems is short for halvfemsindstyve, literally half-five-times-twenty, meaning ½5×20 = 4.5×20 = 90.
We don’t use “fems” tough. That would mean femsindstyve which is 5*20 and we say a hundred of course.
So we have this:
There is a relic from this system still in use: halvanden (1 and a half). Though I doubt many people know the origin of the word.