Folksprak-Wiki

• 1-12
  • 1: ën
  • 2: two
  • 3: tri
  • 4: fier
  • 5: femf
  • 6: six
  • 7: seven
  • 8: acht
  • 9: nien
  • 10: tën
  • 11: elv
  • 12: tvielf
• 13-19
  • formed by adding the suffix -tëen to the numbers 3 to 9:
  • compare this to the english suffix -teen
  • references: sch12
• multiples of 10
  • formed by adding the suffix -tig to the name of the first digit
  • compare this to the english suffix -ty
• powers of 10
  • 100: hundred
  • 1000: tusend
• references: sch12

• 0-10
  • 0: nul
  • 1: en
  • 2: tve
  • 3: tri
  • 4: fir
  • 5: fem
  • 6: seks
  • 7: siv
  • 8: akt
  • 9: nin
  • 10: ten
• powers of 10
  • 100: hundred
  • 1000: tusend
• all other numbers
  • formed by sticking the numbers together according to the decimal system with the numbers from 2 to 9 as factors
  • for example 8192: akttusend-(en)hundred-ninten-tve
• for the numbers 11-19 this system differs from most systems used in the Germanic languages, which makes it a little bit harder to comprehend for Germanic speakers without ever having seen it, but it also widens the distance between the names of the number-pairs “10+x/10·x” (13/30, 14/40, …), which is ofter quite small in the systems of the Germanic languages; e.g. the English words fourteen and fourty are quite susceptical to get confused
• references: fen13

• 0-10
  • 0: nul
  • 1: en
  • 2: tvo
  • 3: tri
  • 4: fir
  • 5: fiv
  • 6: seks
  • 7: siven
  • 8: akt
  • 9: neen
  • 10: ten
• powers of 10
  • 100: hundred
  • 1000: tusen
  • 1000000: miljon
• references: cha07

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