• KSP Atlas@sopuli.xyz
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    The Finnish equivalent would be viisisataaviisikymmentäviisituhattaviisisataaviisikymmentäviisi i think

    It’s even worse cause some of the numbers within the number are conjugated in the partitive case and whenever you want to conjugate the number into one of Finnish’s 15 cases you have to apply it onto every number, so that number conjugated in the inessive case (meaning in something) is viidessäsadessaviidessäkymmenessäviidessätuhannessaviidessäsadessaviidessäkymmenessäviidessä i think

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    I mean, thisis pretty much the same for all languages…

    Fivehundredfiftyfivethousandfivehundredandfiftyfive is not really any easier

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      No, but:

      Five hundred fifty-five thousand five hundred and fifty-five

      is waaaaaay easier than

      Fivehundredfiftyfivethousandfivehundredandfiftyfive

    • StinkyFingerItchyBum@lemmy.ca
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      ♫ ♪ ♬ One trillion bottles of beer on the wall, one trillion bottles of beer,

      you take one down pass it around nine-hundred and ninety-nine billion nine-hundred and ninety-nine million nine-hundred and ninety-nine thousand nine-hundred and ninety-nine bottles of beer on the wall.

      nine-hundred and ninety-nine billion nine-hundred and ninety-nine million nine-hundred and ninety-nine thousand nine-hundred and ninety-nine bottles of beer onn the wall. Nine-hundred and ninety-nine billion nine-hundred and ninety-nine million nine-hundred and ninety-nine thousand nine-hundred and ninety-nine bottles of beer, you take one down pass it around…

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        I’m not a native speaker but I’m pretty sure you’re using that esset (ß) incorrectly. The esset is used when you have a pair of esses next to each other, whereas “dreizig” is always spelled with a Z to the best of my knowledge (like sechtzig at the end)

        Also: 132.465

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          1. Its SZ, or sharp S. Eszett is how the german pronounciation of SZ would be written out. “Esset” would be used to encourage a group of people to eat a meal.
          2. ß isnt used when you have a pair of s letters next to each other. Its most commonly used if you have long vowels beforehand. See “Trasse” vs “Straße”. Edit: “Phase” has also a long vowel but the “s” is pronounced less sharp…
          3. Dreißig with “z” is wrong. If you cant be bothered to use “ß” on a non-german keyboard just using “ss” is completly fine. Because of the long vowels beforehand compared to zwanzig, vierzig, fünfzig, etc…
          4. Its Sechzig. No "t"s involved.

          You got the number right, though! yay

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            1. ß isnt used when you have a pair of s letters next to each other. Its most commonly used if you have long vowels beforehand. See “Trasse” vs “Straße”.

            Perhaps worth adding that we had a spelling reform in 1996, which kind of put this rule in place.
            If you learned German before then or had a teacher who learned it before then, it’s possible that you got taught it the old way…

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              Fair. „Dreißig“ is quite an outlier.
              But wouldn’t it be boring, if the rules didn’t have exceptions?
              But also, the way our constant writing reforms are going, I wouldn’t be too surprised, if, at some point, „dreizig“ becomes the correct spelling. In some dialects, it’s already spoken more as a ‘z’ than a ‘ß’.
              Then again, I’m still mad at how they massacred the spelling of reflection.

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    As someone learning German, I was able to figure this out pretty quickly since there is a pattern. But I still forget what Warum means every time I see it

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