Comment on The English word "four" has 4 letters. Are there any other numbers where the English name for them has that many letters?

NONE_dc@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• SatyrSack@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I was able to come up with a list of similar scenarios for various languages using a simple formula in LibreOffice Calc: =LEN(A2)=ROW(A2)-1 (row 1 being a header row)

  Language	Word	Digit
  English	Four	4
  German	Vier	4
  Italian	Tre	3
  Spanish	Cinco	5
  Dutch	Vier	4
  Portuguese	Cinco	5
  Swedish	Tre	3
  Swedish	Fyra	4
  Danish	To	2
  Danish	Tre	3
  Danish	Fire	4
  Norwegian	To	2
  Norwegian	Tre	3
  Norwegian	Fire	4
  Finnish	Viisi	5
  Turkish	Dört	4
  French	N/A	N/A
  Indonesian	N/A	N/A
  Polish	N/A	N/A

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  • HK65@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    In Hungarian, it’s “négy”, but it’s actually only three letters, n, é and gy.

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  • frank@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    二 (pronounced and romanized to “ni”) is 2 in Japanese and has two letters kinda

    Same with 三(San)

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    • Admetus@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      We getcha but that’s romaji which is a transliteration of the syllable sounds.

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      • frank@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Yeah, but saying 一 has one Kanji and is One would be the only candidate ans that’s a little boring :p

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  • vatlark@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    This is a clever solution

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