Also, Belgians do that sanely too.
70: soixante-dix (FR) "sixty-ten". Septante (BE) is literally seventy (seven decades), which is much better.
And so on and so forth for 80 (octante in BE) and 90 (nonante).
Edit: fixed seventy
70: soixante-dix (FR) "sixty-ten". Septante (BE) is literally seventy (seven decades), which is much better.
And so on and so forth for 80 (octante in BE) and 90 (nonante).
Edit: fixed seventy
Nope. That’s switzerland, belgians completely illogically have kept the 20-based naming here.
So do Belgians do it 100% like the french? Or so they mix a bit of FR and CH?
Octante as far as I know has been dead for a while and is not used anywhere, in Switzerland or elsewhere.