Hans van Zijst

2022-09-27 10:43:20

Hans van Zijst

hans@social.woefdram.nl

ֆʊʐɨɛ ǟʀᥴɦιȶᥱᥴȶ wrote the following post Mon, 26 Sep 2022 18:39:52 +0200

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2022-09-27 12:41:49

andreas_geisler@diaspora.glasswings.com

That is similar, yes. Swedish hasn't kept (or perhaps never had) the weird "counting in twenties" in the main number lines. And Swedish has also flipped the order of the ones, so it's a boring "nine ten nine". This is the same as in Finnish, "yhdeksänkymmentäyhdeksän" (nine-tens nine).

2022-09-27 12:48:53

andreas_geisler@diaspora.glasswings.com

By the way, according to wikipedia, the swedish and german words for "twenty of a kind" is "tjog". This is really weird, because in Danish it's "snes" and in Norwegian it's "sneis".

Of course, for Dutch, they have "stijg" which agrees with neither line.

Swedish seems to have a lot of words that are the same as in German, in cases where Danish does not. Like "moln" for cloud, cf. "sky" in danish.

2022-09-27 12:50:02

andreas_geisler@diaspora.glasswings.com

Could be just Danes trying to be ungerman, and Swedes trying to be undanish.