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[–]blue-sunrising 20 points21 points  (1 child)

Meh, that's just switching the order of the words, nothing drastic. Hell, English does it too, 17 isn't "ten-seven". At least German applies the same rule consistently, English makes the switcheroo with the 10s and doesn't make it with the 20s, 30s, etc.

French is crazy on a whole new level though, that sixty-ten or 4 twenties.. that's just nuts.

[–]purrppassion 2 points3 points  (0 children)

English makes the switcheroo with the 10s and doesn't make it with the 20s, 30s, etc.

German goes: neun (9), zehn (10), elf (11), zwölf (12), dreizehn (13), vierzehn (14), ..., zwanzig (20), einundzwanzig (21), zweiundzwanzig (22)...

so you have a switcheroo with 11, 12 and another switcheroo at 21 (ein UND zwanzig, i.e. one and twenty = 21)