On the other hand we have a word for 1.5 which is sorely missing in English - półtora.
On the other other hand English does weird stuff with thousands - saying 2300 as 23 hundred.
On the other hand we have a word for 1.5 which is sorely missing in English - półtora.
On the other other hand English does weird stuff with thousands - saying 2300 as 23 hundred.
Czech often does the same thing though, both when counting and naming years - "devatenáct set osmdesát čtyři" is literally "nineteen hundred eighty four"
There's "půldruha" and "poldruha" in Czech and Slovak too, but I feel like it loses competition to "jeden a půl/pol" in terms of usage.
I’d say, two thousand-three hundred. UK English.
Probably because we have a postfix for hundreds, so 200, 300, etc are single words (dwieście, trzysta, etc).
Maybe English could use -dred like that :) Thousand ninedred eighty four :)
"quatre-vingt-dix-huit" -- (4*20)+10 8
An example would be 12: dve [two] nadset [suffix meaning a number 11-19].
https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/Dutzend https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/tuzin https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/dozen
The most recent common ancestor is Old French “dozaine”, and ultimately it derives from Latin “duodecim”.