Yet numerals are way more logic and simple in Finnish than in French.
Btw.No-one actually speaks that Karelian language in that spot on the map in Russia where that Karelian word is. Russia has destroyed Karelian speakers and Karelian language there as they do with everything they touch.
I’d be more concerned with whatever is going on in Denmark.
No hurry, we got all the time in the world.
Well, we say “ysiysi” instead of “yhdeksänkymmentäyhdeksän”. The standard register is (almost literally) about as ancient as Chaucer English is, comparably. The spoken varieties are literally different languages.
Ysiysi is shorterone.
just write 99
How anyone can pronounce that in polish is a mystery to me
We have shorthands: “ysiysi” is only 6 letters.
Because the word for ‘nine’ and ‘ten’ are long and 99 is written “Nine tens nine”. Nobody actually says “yhdeksänkymmentäyhdeksän” though, because that is standard Finnish, and nobody speaks standard Finnish. What people would actually say is either “yheksänkyt yheksän” or “ysi ysi”
Yhdeksänkymmentä (ninety) is literally ‘yhdeksän kymmentä’ or ‘nine tens’. 99 (yhdeksän-kymmentä-yhdeksän) is actually ‘nine-tens-nine’ if you want to break it down all the way.
In spoken Finnish: yheksäkyt yheksä
Or better: ysiysi
Ysiysi
Yes.
As opposed to the super simple French ‘four-twenties-ten-nine’ ?
but its actually ysiysi, in spoken language, in most dialects nowdays at least
Where is the 100-1 used?
Yhekskyt-yheksä
yheksäyheksä
What do you mean long-winded, literally one word!
/s
What is that language in lappland/norhern finland supposed to be?
They use the short form for Germany here, the correct expression would be “Neunundneunzig Luftballons”.
but in reality we say it “ysiysi”.
In North-West France, 99=103?
yhdeksän-kymmentä-yhdeksän is pretty much identical to nine-ty-nine in syntax, our words for “nine” and “ten” just happen to be long lol
Finnish isn’t 90+9, it’s 9×10+9.
Finns celebrated the change of millennium because “2000” is “kaksituhatta” in Finnish while “1999” is “tuhatyhdeksänsataayhdeksänkymmentäyhdeksän”.
I’m an Italian living in Finland. Who the hell thinks that in Italy we have 4 ways of saying 99? Plus Vatican City in Latin? lmao
I’ve always wondered if yhdeksän (9) comes from 1-lessthan-decade and kahdeksan (8) comes from 2-lessthan-decade. 1 yksi. 2 kaksi. Too much of a coincidence for me when looking at other number names.
99 yhdeksän kymenntä yhdeksän
9 tens & 9
1-lessthan-decade tens and 1-lessthan-decade ?
But maybe there is a reason why only 8 and 9 are deksän’s and the others all get cool individual names.
At least we don’t button smash like Poland does
Some country could well have a NENENENENENNENENNEN and nobody would notice
The common language word “yhdeksänkymmentäyhdeksän” (nine tens and nine) is not long, and if you want to use colloquial language, “ysi-ysi” (nine-nine) is just as fine, but not suitable for official documents.
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Doesn’t seem to be drastically long either
Yet numerals are way more logic and simple in Finnish than in French.
Btw.No-one actually speaks that Karelian language in that spot on the map in Russia where that Karelian word is. Russia has destroyed Karelian speakers and Karelian language there as they do with everything they touch.
I’d be more concerned with whatever is going on in Denmark.
No hurry, we got all the time in the world.
Well, we say “ysiysi” instead of “yhdeksänkymmentäyhdeksän”. The standard register is (almost literally) about as ancient as Chaucer English is, comparably. The spoken varieties are literally different languages.
Ysiysi is shorterone.
just write 99
How anyone can pronounce that in polish is a mystery to me
We have shorthands: “ysiysi” is only 6 letters.
Because the word for ‘nine’ and ‘ten’ are long and 99 is written “Nine tens nine”. Nobody actually says “yhdeksänkymmentäyhdeksän” though, because that is standard Finnish, and nobody speaks standard Finnish. What people would actually say is either “yheksänkyt yheksän” or “ysi ysi”
Yhdeksänkymmentä (ninety) is literally ‘yhdeksän kymmentä’ or ‘nine tens’. 99 (yhdeksän-kymmentä-yhdeksän) is actually ‘nine-tens-nine’ if you want to break it down all the way.
In spoken Finnish: yheksäkyt yheksä
Or better: ysiysi
Ysiysi
Yes.
As opposed to the super simple French ‘four-twenties-ten-nine’ ?
but its actually ysiysi, in spoken language, in most dialects nowdays at least
Where is the 100-1 used?
Yhekskyt-yheksä
yheksäyheksä
What do you mean long-winded, literally one word!
/s
What is that language in lappland/norhern finland supposed to be?
yhdeksänsataayhdeksänkymmentäyhdeksänmiljardiayhdeksänsataayhdeksänkymmentäyhdeksänmiljoonaayhdeksänsataayhdeksänkymmentäyhdeksäntuhattayhdeksänsataayhdeksänkymmentäyhdeksän =
999 999 999 999
They use the short form for Germany here, the correct expression would be “Neunundneunzig Luftballons”.
but in reality we say it “ysiysi”.
In North-West France, 99=103?
yhdeksän-kymmentä-yhdeksän is pretty much identical to nine-ty-nine in syntax, our words for “nine” and “ten” just happen to be long lol
Finnish isn’t 90+9, it’s 9×10+9.
Finns celebrated the change of millennium because “2000” is “kaksituhatta” in Finnish while “1999” is “tuhatyhdeksänsataayhdeksänkymmentäyhdeksän”.
I’m an Italian living in Finland. Who the hell thinks that in Italy we have 4 ways of saying 99? Plus Vatican City in Latin? lmao
I’ve always wondered if yhdeksän (9) comes from 1-lessthan-decade and kahdeksan (8) comes from 2-lessthan-decade. 1 yksi. 2 kaksi. Too much of a coincidence for me when looking at other number names.
99 yhdeksän kymenntä yhdeksän
9 tens & 9
1-lessthan-decade tens and 1-lessthan-decade ?
But maybe there is a reason why only 8 and 9 are deksän’s and the others all get cool individual names.
At least we don’t button smash like Poland does
Some country could well have a NENENENENENNENENNEN and nobody would notice
The common language word “yhdeksänkymmentäyhdeksän” (nine tens and nine) is not long, and if you want to use colloquial language, “ysi-ysi” (nine-nine) is just as fine, but not suitable for official documents.