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

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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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