6 Interesting Facts About Danish

Nov 30 2022

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As in German and Old English, Danish starts counting the number 21 from the cardinals, resulting in numbers such as one-and-twenty or enogtyve. But in addition to that, Danish also counts its higher numbers based on the number 20. So, the number 60 in Danish is tres, which in older versions of the language meant tre sinds tyve (“three times twenty”).

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