GollumHow to say the number 92
someguy3Are all German numbers like that?
No, it gets more confusing the more numbers you add.
34563
4+30 thousand
+500
3+60
Ow my brain.
You probably did, but then you did the sensible thing and (mostly) changed it around. You can read some 19th century novels and find stuff like “I am two and twenty years old”.
Mostly because it’s still the old order for the teens. 1616 could be read as sixteen hundred sixteen, right?
Hmm is that actual English usage or an author thinking in German and translating badly (there were lots of German immigrants to North America).
I don’t think e.g. Jane Austen was German.
ValiantDustOr Shakespeare…
Thy Fifty Yet Doth Double Five and Twenty.