I absolutely hate the number system in German!!!

....oh wait

Can you explain?

The german number system goes:
1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30,31,32,33,34,35,36,37,38,39,40,41,42,43,44,45,46,47,48,49,50,51,52,53,54,55,56,57,58,59,60,61,62,63,64,65,66,67,68,69,70,71,72,73,74,75,76,78,79,80,81,82,83,84,85,86,87,89,80,81,82,83,84,85,86,87,88,89,90,91,92,93,94,95,96,97,98,100

Hope, I was helpful 😁

@FitzSuperUser directly translated, numbers after 20 are spoken as one and twenty, two and twenty, and twenty.... eight and ninty, nine and ninty, one hundred and one, one hundred and two, ....one hundred one and twenty, one hundred two and twenty....etc

Isn't it arabic number System? :P

80 to 89 is in there twice? You Germans are weird. Or maybe you made a mistake while typing this out by hand. In that case, I'm downvoting, but not for the mistake.

@linuxer4fun that must of taken time to write

@brettmoan I get it thanks similar to French numbers then they have like a twenty system as well so 80 is literally translated as 4 20s

@FitzSuperUser nope. Eighty = Achzig

@seplayer then I must be thinking of a different language I know one has a 20 system that's in Europe

Isn't that German I was on about French

Yeah it is definitely french. I remember that 90 was something like quatre-vingt-dix which means 4 times 20 plus 10

@FitzSuperUser German doesn't use a 20 system we just have weird ways to read out numbers above 20. We read from right to left more or less and at 101 we read the hundreds and then right to left it's actually somewhat hard to explain.

@BigBrainAFK oh yes I remember now you guys have horrible issues with explaining phone numbers to people in England or just in general (thou your used to it)

It's actually quite funny 😂

I really never thought about that "issue"@BigBrainAFK

But it seems legitime to me because there were a few kids back in school days that had problems with using numbers > 20. For example reading a 59 but pronouncing 95.

@seplayer you had the chance bro clearly missed it on purpose ..

So you meant 969696 ... No I meant 696969 😉

@FitzSuperUser for god sake I learned how to write down large numbers as x * 10^e

@FitzSuperUser I gave this even more thought and it turns out only the last 2 numbers if between 20 and 100 are problematic. Those are as @seplayer already mentioned often pronounced the other way around by people who just learned German or aren't speaking it regularly.

We also have million instead of billion and some other things in the bigger numbers

It's the same in Dutch though

@linuxer4fun can confirm that we just count to 100. Thats why we have to be so efficient in everything we do.

@BigBrainAFK in Dutch it is miljard in stead of billion, but there is also a biljoen which is larger I guess?

@Atlas I count with twe digits

@mano what exactly is the down vote? Yes I typed it by hand and made a typo. But the idea is still there. For the 2 rightmost digits, when the value of this two digits is greater than 12, the far right digit is pronounced before the 2nd far most, unless the far right digit is 0.

Effectively this

26 = sechsundzwanzig (six and twenty)
97 = seibenundneunzig (seven and seventy)

I don't have much experience with speaking and reading numbers with more than 4 digits, but based of what I've been able to pick up the rule is consistent with each set of 3

So in 343,534
In English it is "three hundred and forty three thousand five hundred and thirty four"
But in German it is "Dreihundertdreiundvierzigtausendfünfhundert und vierunddreißig"

Which directly translated is :
"Three-hundred-three-and-fourty-thousand-five-hundred and four-and-thirty"

@brettmoan My post was meant as a reply to the guy who typed out all the numbers untill 100, with [80..89] in there twice. How does a dev write that by hand?

@brettmoan drie honderd drie en veertig duisend vyf honderd vier en dertig. Lieflik, is dit nie.

@penderis that spelling looks foreign to me (no pun intended), is that swiss german?

@mano Ah, I understand now. I didn't notice you were replying to @linuxer4fun . Gotcha.

@brettmoan afrikaans root is dutch

@brettmoan same structure in a lot of phrases