二 (pronounced and romanized to “ni”) is 2 in Japanese and has two letters kinda
Same with 三(San)
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 |
frank@sopuli.xyz 8 months ago
Admetus@sopuli.xyz 8 months ago
We getcha but that’s romaji which is a transliteration of the syllable sounds.
frank@sopuli.xyz 8 months ago
Yeah, but saying 一 has one Kanji and is One would be the only candidate ans that’s a little boring :p
vatlark@lemmy.world 8 months ago
This is a clever solution
HK65@sopuli.xyz 8 months ago
In Hungarian, it’s “négy”, but it’s actually only three letters, n, é and gy.