Those are numbers, my friend. You mean numerals, but those aren't very helpful in conversation if you can't say them. This is a post about learning a language, not arithmetic.
♫ ♪ ♬ 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...
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)
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.
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...
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...
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...
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.
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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ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 79 pts · 254d
I mean, thisis pretty much the same for all languages...
Fivehundredfiftyfivethousandfivehundredandfiftyfive is not really any easier
PapaStevesy@lemmy.world · 31 pts · 254d
No, but:
Five hundred fifty-five thousand five hundred and fifty-five
is waaaaaay easier than
Fivehundredfiftyfivethousandfivehundredandfiftyfive
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 254d
Meh
Redjard@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 253d
butwiththessdpricesthesedaysyougottaconsiderthestoragecosts
I_Clean_Here@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 252d
You use numbers instead of the fucking words
PapaStevesy@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 252d
Those are numbers, my friend. You mean numerals, but those aren't very helpful in conversation if you can't say them. This is a post about learning a language, not arithmetic.
I_Clean_Here@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 178d
So you writing it out was utterly pointless.
PapaStevesy@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 178d
Writing what out?
Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca · 22 pts · 254d
♫ ♪ ♬ 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...
the_tab_key@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 254d
Except, you know, spaces.
Kratzkopf@discuss.tchncs.de · 7 pts · 254d
How do you feel about Einhundertzweiunddreißigtausendvierhundertfünfundsechzig?
ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 254d
Fairly indifferent TBH
Kratzkopf@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 254d
Fair.
Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 254d
I love that band! Wait, no. I was mistaking it for Einstürzende Neubauten.
I_Clean_Here@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 252d
132465 noice
TargaryenTKE@lemmy.world · -7 pts · 254d
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
Hond@piefed.social · 16 pts · 254d
You got the number right, though! yay
Ephera@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 254d
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...
yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 252d
Unless you learned German in Austria-Hungary between 1879 and 1901 of course.
ZonenRanslite@feddit.org · 16 pts · 254d
Dreißig is correct, trust me, i am a german guy.
TargaryenTKE@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 254d
Fiiiine, but I'm gonna complain about it
accideath@feddit.org · 3 pts · 253d
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.
I_Clean_Here@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 252d
You could have stopped at "I'm not a native speaker" because this is just wrong in multiple ways.
TargaryenTKE@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 252d
Yeah but that's just not fun. I prefer to be corrected rather than snubbed
ZonenRanslite@feddit.org · 3 pts · 254d
Then say it out
ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 254d
Did you hear it or should I repeat?
ZonenRanslite@feddit.org · 3 pts · 254d
Once again, please
KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz · 13 pts · 254d
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
CitizenKong@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 253d
Ok, you fin.
Phegan@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 254d
ZonenRanslite@feddit.org · 13 pts · 254d
Why
Phegan@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 254d
leave_it_blank@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 254d
Just remember this conversation. You will forever know what it means.
Phegan@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 253d
RidderSport@feddit.org · 3 pts · 254d
Actually laughed out, have to work harder now.
RidderSport@feddit.org · 4 pts · 254d
It was not actually a question, but a translation
Phegan@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 253d
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 254d
555555, too much effort.
BigBrownBeaver@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 254d
How 'bout tschechisches Streichholzschächtelchen?
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 254d
Chuchichäschtli
leave_it_blank@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 254d
Schäschische Tontäschnika.
BigBrownBeaver@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 254d
Love it!
Depress_Mode@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 254d
hydrashok@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 254d
Fünfhundertfünfundzwanzigtausendsechshundert Minuten
DmMacniel@feddit.org · 5 pts · 254d
how about french counting/way of spelling a number? :D
ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 253d
Read to the tune of "five hundred twenty five thousand six hundred minutes."
doingthestuff@lemy.lol · 3 pts · 254d
867-5309
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 252d
The spaces between the words is not efficient.
Lumidaub@feddit.org · 3 pts · 252d
Fümpf.
stupidcasey@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 254d
This looks like a fhün language.
witty_username@feddit.nl · 2 pts · 254d
Hjalamanger@feddit.nu · 2 pts · 254d
Danish counts in a weird way. But nothing in particular about five (that's fem, just like in Swedish)
VonReposti@feddit.dk · 2 pts · 254d
Fivethousandfivehundredfiveandhalftothethirdtimestwenty
MissyBee@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 254d
I hate this language
ZonenRanslite@feddit.org · 6 pts · 254d
Want to talk about it?
VOwOxel@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 252d
Neuf-Cent-Quatre-Vingt-Dix-Neuf-Mille-Neuf-Cent-Quatre-Vingt-Dix-Neuf
crapwittyname@feddit.uk · 1 pts · 252d
TheOctonaut@mander.xyz · 0 pts · 254d
Neinhundert-neizig, eins-zwei-drei, eins-zwei-drei - rauf an!
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 0 pts · 254d
Ooo! Do Rent!