how to count in Your Language?

[Dakkus]

I'd like to know how you count numbers in different languages. So, go on an post here how it works in your language (translated into English as literally as possible).

For example here's the Finnish one (Because each chunk of three numbers is written together, I've written some letters in middle of the words with capital letters in order to increase the clarity):
1 ... 5 ... 10 = one ... five ... ten
11 ... 15 ... 19 = oneOfSecond ... FiveOfSecond ... NineOfSecond
20 ... 25 ... 29 = twoTens ... twoTensFive ... twoTensNine
... 99 = nineTensNine
100 = hundred
101 ... 999 = hundredOne ... nineHundredNineTensNine
1000 ... 9999 = thousand ... nineThousandsNineHundredsNineTensNine
10000 ... 999999 = tenThousands ... nineHundredsNineTensNineThousands nineHundredsNineTensNine

in most Germanic languages you have to specially remember that the numbers 11 and 12 have special names. And I believe there might be other similar quirks, too. And looking from another perspective: You Germanic people might find it interesting that Finnish does /not/ have special names for 11 and 12.
And if someone remembers the Russian system, then spit it out. And of course Lazza may teach us to count in English Chinese. I'm quite sure I can trust him in this ;)

[DAVID & KATY]

In my work comes many Inglish people and he needs to tell me the number of your houses!
He tells like this:


11-Eleven
24-Tweenty Four
101- One Zero One
167- One Six Seven
Etc..........

[N0W1K]

Let's see in Spanish...


1 ... 5 ... 10 = one ... five ... ten
11 ... 15 ... 19 = eleven... fifteen...TenNine
20 ... 25 ... 29 = twenty...twentyFive... twentyNine
90... 99 = ninenty... ninentyNine
100 = hundred
101 ... 999 = hundredOne ... nineHundredNinentyNine
1000 ... 9999 = thousand ... nineThousandNineHundredNinentyNine
10000 ... 999999 = tenThousand ... nineHundredNinentyNineThousandNineHundredNinentyNine


In Catalan is nearly similar....

[JP Simões]

Well in portuguese we've got

1. Um
2. Dois
3. Três
4. Quatro
5. Cinco
6. Seis
7. Sete
8. Oito
9. Nove
10. Dez
    
    Notice the similarities on these (these names don't have a translation other than the number itself)
11. Onze
12. Doze
13. Treze
14. Catorze
15. Quinze
16. Dezasseis (literally, "tenasix")
17. Dezassete ("tenaseven")
18. Dezoito ("teneight")
19. Dezanove ("tenanine")
20. Vinte
21. Vinte e Um ("twenty and one")
22. Vinte e Dois ("twenty and two")

...and so forth

30. Trinta
31. Trinta e Um ("thirty and one")
40. Quarenta
50. Cinquenta
60. Sessenta
70. Setenta
80. Oitenta
90. Noventa
99. Noventa e Nove ("ninety and nine")

100. Cem ("one hundred" - literally, "one hundred" should be "um cento")
101. Cento e um ("one hundred and one")
102. Cento e dois ("one hundred and two")
110. Cento e dez ("one hundred and ten")
199. Cento e noventa e nove ("one hundred and ninety and nine")
200. Duzentos (coming from dois centos, "two hundreds")
300. Trezentos (três centos, "three hundreds")
999. Novecentos e noventa e nove ("ninehundreds and ninety and nine")

1000. Mil ("one thousand")
10000. Dez mil ("ten thousand")

1000000. Um Milhão ("one million")

[vermeer]

Dutch

0. Nul
1. Één
2. Twee
3. Drie
4. Vier
5. Vijf
6. Zes
7. Zeven
8. Acht
9. Negen
10. Tien
11. Elf
12. Twaalf
13. Dertien
14. Veertien
15. Vijftien
16. Zestien
17. Zeventien
18. Achttien
19. Negentien
20. Twintig
21. Éénentwintig
22. Tweëentwintig
23. Driëentwintig
24. Vierenentwintig
25. Vijfentwintig
26. Zesentwintig
27. Zevenentwintig
28. Achtentwintig
29. Negenentwintig
30. Dertig

Someone else continues hopefully!

[Gauss]

The English language counts

1 ... 5 ... 10 = one ... five ... ten
11, 12 have special names: eleven, twelve
13 ... 15 ... 19 = thir-teen ... fif-teen ... nine-teen (so with teen instead of ten and some deflected prefixes thir/three, fif/five)
20 ... 25 ... 29 = twenty ... twenty-five ... twenty-nine
(twen-ty, thir-ty, four-ty, ... is similar to the prefixes in the teens)
... 99 = ninety-nine
100 = one hundred
101 ... 999 follow the principle "n hundred + rest as between 1 and 99"
1000 = (one) thousand
1001 ... 9999 follow the principle "n thousand + rest as between 1 and 999"
Etc.

Hope this helps.

[sen-chuan]

Italian Numbers:

1. Uno
2. Due
3. Tre
4. Quattro
5. Cinque
6. Sei
7. Sette
8. Otto
9. Nove
10. Dieci

11. Undici (one-ten)
12. Dodici (two-ten)
13. Tredici (three-ten)
14. Quattordici (four-ten)
15. Quindici (five-ten)
16. Sedici (six-ten)
17. Diciasette (ten-seven)
18. Diciotto (ten-eight)
19. Dicianove (ten-nine)
20. Venti
21. Ventuno(twenty-one)
22. Ventidue (twenty-two) ...

30. Trenta
40. Quaranta
50. Cinquanta
60. Sessanta
70. Settanta
80. Ottanta
90. Novanta

100. Cento (hundred)
101. Cento e uno (one hundred and one)
102. Centodue(one hundred-two)
103. Centotre (one hundred-three) ….

200. Duecento
300. Trecento
400. Quattrocento
500. Cinquecento
600. Seicento
700. Settecento
800. Ottocento
900. Novecento

1000. Mille ("one thousand")
2000. Duemila
3000. Tremila
4000. Quattromila
5000. Cinquemila
6000. Seimila
7000. Settemila
8000. Ottomila
9000. Novemila
10000. Diecimila …..
Please, note that from 2000 Italians use “mila” instead of “mille”

1000000. Un milione
2000000. Due milioni …

Cheers!

[sen-chuan]

And what about French and Belgian numbers???

[Dakkus]

And what about French and Belgian numbers???

Belgian? Do you mean some kind of a mixture between the Dutch, French and German styles?

[JP Simões]

And Esperanto:

1. Unu
2. Du
3. Tri
4. Kvar
5. Kvin
6. Ses
7. Sep
8. Ok
9. Naû
10. Dek
11. Dek Unu
12. Dek Du
13. Dek Tri

20. Dudek
21. Dudek Unu
22. Dudek Du
30. Tridek
40. Kvardek
99. Naûdek Naû
100. Cent
200. Ducent
300. Tricent
481. Kvarcent Okdek Unu
1000. Mil
10000. Dekmil
1000000. Miliono

You can't get much easier than this.

[aron]

In Turkish:
0 sıfır
1 bir
2 iki
3 üç
4 dört
5 beş
6 altı
7 yedi
8 sekiz
9 dokuz
10 on
11 on bir (ten-one)
12 on iki (ten-two)
15 on beş (ten-five)
20 yirmi
21 yirmi bir (twenty-one)
22 yirmi iki (twenty-two)
30 otuz
40 kırk
50 elli
60 altmış
70 yetmiş
80 seksen
90 doksan
100 yüz
1,000 bin
1,000,000 milyon

(BTW I'm not Turkish )

[bhoeyb]

Belgium:

1 ... 5 ... 10 = one ... five ... ten
11 ... 14 = eleven ... fourteen
15 ... 19 = fiveTen ... nineTen
20 ... 21 ... 25 ... 29 = twenty ... OneAndTwenty ... FiveAndTwenty ... NineAndTwenty
... 99 = nineAndNinety
100 = hundred
101 ... 112 ... 113 ... 999 = hundredAndOne ... hundredAndTwelve ... hundredThirteen ... nineHundredNineAndNinety
1000 ... = thousand ...

Funny when you think about it and read it in English .

[eddydevries]

Dutch
30. Dertig

Someone else continues hopefully!

31. éénendertig (one-and-thirty)
32. tweeëndertig (two-and-thirty)
33. drieëndertig (three-and-thirty)
34. vierendertig (four-and-thirty)
35. vijfendertig (five-and-thirty)
36. zesendertig (six-and-thirty)
37. zevenendertig (seven-and-thirty)
38. achtendertig (eight-and-thirty)
39. negenendertig (nine-and-thirty)
40. Veertig (forty)
41. éénenveertig (one-and-forty)
42. tweeënveertig (two-and-forty)
43. drieënveertig (three-and-forty)
...
50. vijftig (fifty)
51. éénenvijftig (one-and-fifty)
...
60. zestig (sixty)
70. zeventig (seventy)
80. tachtig (t-eighty: extra "t" to pronounce it easier)
81. éénentachtig (one-and-t-eighty: extra "t" to pronounce it easier)
...
90. negentig (ninety)
99. negenennegentig (nine-and-ninety)
100. honderd (hundred)
101. honderdeen (hundred-one)
102. honderdtwee (hundred-two)
103. honderddrie (hundred-three)
...
109. honderdnegen (hundred-nine)
110. honderdtien (hundred-ten)
111. honderdelf (hundred-eleven)
112. honderdtwaalf (hundred-twelve)
113. honderddertien (hundred-thirteen)
114. honderdveertien (hundred-forteen)
...
199. honderdnegenennegentig (hundred-nine-and-ninety)
200. tweehonderd (two-hundred)
201. tweehonderdéén (two-hundred-one)
...
300. driehonderd (three-hundred)
...
999. negenhonderdnegenennegentig (nine-hundred-nine-and-ninety)
1000. duizend (thousand)
1001. duizendéén (thousand-one)
1002. duizendtwee (thousand-two)
...
1099. duizendnegenennegentig (thousand-nine-and-ninety)
1100. elfhonderd (eleven-hundred)
1101. elfhonderdéén (eleven-hundred-one)
...
1200. twaalfhonderd (twelve-hundred)
1300. dertienhonderd (thirteen-hundred)
...
2000. tweeduizend (two-thousand)
2100. éénentwintighonderd (one-and-twenty-hundred)
...
9999. negenennegentighonderd negenennegentig (nine-and-ninety-hundred nine-and-ninety)
10000. tienduizend (ten-thousand)
10100. tienduizend honderd (ten-thousand hundred)
10101. tienduizend honderdéén (ten-thousand hundred-one)
...
100000. honderdduizend (hundred-thousand)
...
1000000. miljoen (million)
2000000. tweemiljoen (two-million)
1000000000. miljard (milliard/billion: Eng/Am)
1000000000000. biljoen (billion/trillion: Eng/Am)

etc. etc. etc.

[helloggs]

Deutsch:

1..10=one..ten
11=elf (well, eleven)
12=zwoelf (twelve)
13..19=dreizehn..neunzehn (three-ten..nine-ten)
20=zwanzig(twenty)
21..29=einundzwanzig..neunundzwanzig (one-and-twenty..nine-and-twenty)
30=dreissig(thirty)
31..29=einunddreissig..neununddreissig (one-and-thirty..nine-and-thirty)
and so on
40=vierzig
50=fuenfzig
60=sechzig
70=siebzig
80=achtzig
90=neunzig
100=(ein)hundert ((one-)hundred)
101..199=(ein)hunderteins..(ein)hundertneunundneunzig ((one)hundred-one)..((one)hundredninetynine)
200..900=zweihundert..neunhundert (two-hundred..nine-hundred)
1000=(ein)tausend ((one)thousand)
1135=(ein)tausendeinhundertfuenfunddreissig ((one)thousand-onehundred-five-and-thirty)
999999=neunhundertneunundneunzigtausendneunhundertneunundneunzig (ninehundred-nineandninety-thousand-ninehundred-nineandninety)
1000000=eine Million (one million)
7387567=siebenmillionendreihundertsiebenundachtzigtausendfuenfhundertsiebenundsechzig (sevenmillion-threehundred-seven-andeighty-thousand-fivehundred-sevenandsixty)
10000000=eine Milliarde

Very similiar to Dutch (surprise) and except for the fact that you say for instance one-and-sixty instead of sixty-one actually quiete similiar to the English system.

Maybe I do Russian later on, and I am amazed that nobody posted French so far, since they got one of the weirdest system imho.

Gauss: I am sure you know that, it is fourteen, but for some reason not fourty. It's forty.

[lazza]

Mandarin Chinese

一 (yi) one

二 (er) two

三 (san) three

四 (si) four

五 (wu) five

六 (liu) six

七 (qi) seven

八 (ba) eight

九 (jiu) nine

十 (shi) ten

十一 ...... 十九 (shi-yi)......(shi-jiu) eleven ...... nineteen

二十 , 二十一 ...... 二十九 (er-shi, er-shi-yi ...... er-shi-jiu) twenty, twenty one ...... twenty nine

三十 (san-shi) thirty

etc

九十 (jiu-shi) ninety

一百 (yi-bai) one hundred

三百八十五 (san-bai-ba-shi-wu) 385

一千 (qian) one thousand

一萬 (yi-wan) ten thousand

十萬 (shi-wan) one hundred thousand (lit: ten ten-thousands)

一百萬 (yi-bai-wan) one million (lit: one hundred ten-thousands)

十百萬 (shi-bai-wan) ten million (lit: ten hundred ten-thousands)

億 (yi) one hundred million

十億 (shi-yi) one billion (lit: ten hundred-millions)