When I saw hundred appear on the screen my brain was fully prepared for the word hundred pronounced with like a Swedish accent or something. Then when she said 'hoorol' I was so shook
Hopefully a useful tip: Danish somewhat follows the ‘vigesimal’ system, so think of the number 20. Then focus on the very number (I’ll mark that with *) that multiplies it by 20. So you’ll get the following logic: - 60 (tres) = 3*x20 (3=tre) - 80 (firs) = 4*x20 (4=fire) And thus for the others, think of the word ‘halfway to’ (don’t follow the maths too much): - 50 (halvtreds) = (halfway to 3*)x20 (‘halfway to tres’) - 70 (halvfjerds) = (halfway to 4*)x20 (‘halfway to firs’) - 90 (halvfems) = (halfway to 5*)x20 (‘halfway to fem’) (5=fem) And for 30, 40 and 100: fairly close to English, so the pattern should be predictable here.
when i see denmark, or danish language, i remember my grandfather, he loved denmark, he loved danish language, unfortunaly he died before learning it, so i will learn danish IN HONOR OF MY GRANDFATHER LETS GO!
As the famous meme goes: In most languages, the number 97 is expressed as 90+7 (as is in English, ninety-seven). In German, it is 7+90 (siebenundneunzig, literally sevenandninety) In Japanese, it is 9*10+7 (kyu ju nana, that is "nine ten seven") In French, it is 4*20+10+7 (quatre-vingt-dix-sept, "four-twenty-ten-seven") Finally, in Danish the number is expressed as 7+(-1/2+5)*20 (syvoghalvfems, "sevenandhalffives", where"halffive" means five without a half, and "-s" means multiplying by 20). I would be really surprised if there is a language with a more complex expression for 97.
+Juan R what is suspicious? The expressions for 97 are all true, you can look them up. The Danish number system, counting in twenties and expressing "Half x" when actually meaning "x-1 and a half" is quite known. There is a sketch in Norwegian somewhere on RUclips here when the Norwegians mock it (Danish and Norwegian are mutually intelligible but Norwegian has a "normal" number system).
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+NorwayG00 What makes Danish so difficult isn't the grammar or the vocabulary, it's the pronunciation. Spoken Danish very rarely corresponds to the written word, as Danes love to swallow letters and syllables. When you're as used to phonetic languages (in which what you see is what you get) as I am, it can be confusing bordering on frustrating.
Learn Icelandic... lets you understand allot of Norwegian, Danish, Faroese and some swedish. But that damn danish number system is just plainly brain melting!
Right around 2:19 I start laughing hysterically. The sincerity on her face like "yeah, you better believe it's going this way". Keep it real, Denmark 😎 jeg elsker dansk
It's because it's a short form of tresindstyve which means 3 times 20. One day they basically said "fuck it" and said the number is just 3x, the "s" remaining to indicate they multiply. 50 is even more baffling since halvtredsindstyve literally means third half times 20, implying in fact 2 x 20 + 20 / 2. 70 and 90 are built around the same principle. Halvfjerds (fourth half) and Halvfems (fifth half).
I remember the times I'm in Denmark... going to buy something (when we did not have credit/bank cards) I just put all the money I had (biggest paper money I had in my wallet) on the counter and then I took the change.. and in the end I had only change... I could never ever figure out that crazy numbering system...
It's super easy! For example OTTEOGHALVTREDS is eight and then half a third times twenty, the half third meaning half on the way to three in other words two and a half and then multiply that by twenty which is fifty and don't forget the eight, so 58 !!!!!
English is the same. I am Italian and when I was learning English I was shocked by how many words had strange pronunciation. For instance, "like" is pronounced "laah-eek", and "does" is like "duhs", "one" is pronounced "wuhn", "enough" is "ee-nuf" etc.. there are many shocking pronunciations in English too, very different from the written words.
Learning danish in school the danish number system put my brain in to blank mode. If you have ever had your computer doing the ''Blue screen of death'' that's what it felt like!
I am Norwegian and married to a Danish. I have no problem understanding this but I find the Norwegian numbers are more logical like femti, seksti,sytti, åtti, nitti.
Wow. Way different from Swedish and Norwegian. Any explanation as to the reason why the Danish numbers system is so different from the other peninsular Scandinavian languages?
Danish numbers are in the style of Old English and old Germanic and Danish just hasn't bothered changing, in the meantime it's neighboring languages have updated with the times and ditched things like counting by scores and mostly things like reverse numbers. The Danish numbers from 50 and up are base 20 instead of base 10, much like French from 70 and up, meanwhile Danish also uses the german style of tens before ones, combine this and the numbering system appears quite alien to neighboring systems that count in only base 10 and always read numbers left to right without exception. As mentioned the Danish style is the old way of doing it, some older generations in Norway still use that style in Norwegian though they are dying out, and you will find this way of counting in Old English texts as well, and as previously mentioned you can see parts of it in French and German as well.
+Jesper Liljekrans You know, English used to do the same thing up until a few hundred years ago, and it's still occasionally found in poetry ("four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie").
+Litego Milkman haha, our number system is a little confusing. basically it's translated "Sixandfifty". even though halvtreds also could be translated as "halfsixty" but that is not a valid use of the term.
Haha you really made me laugh :P It's so funny that she keeps saying " Isn't it easy" and even I, a dane, knows that the danish numbers makes no sense :P
I think there's a misunderstanding regarding Danish numbers. This is not a 'different counting system'. The names differ greatly from other germanic languages so harder to remember but Danish people don't count or use numbers differently; it's just the names. At least she doesn't spend time explaining the etymology of 50-90 (which confuses people and makes them think Danish numbers are more complicated than they are). My first language is French, we say 'quatre-vingts' (4-20) for 80, but it has no bearing on how we count.
En og tyve - 21 To og tyve - 22 Tre og tyve - 23 Fire og tyve - 24 Fem og tyve - 25 Seks og tyve - 26 Syv og tyve - 27 Otte og tyve - 28 Ni og tyve - 29
If only i knew this off by heart ):, me being half danish myself i visit Denmark every year, i could speak near enough fluently up to age of 3/4, that is until, UK preschool started where i lost all my danish by the age of 6. ugh
I’m half danish and half English, my mother is British and my father is Danish, however we live in Denmark, I’ve always been able to speak both languages, because of my mother insisting she would mainly speak English to me
+Pualam Nusantara Hi Pualam Nusantara, Thank you for commenting. You pronounce the letter "æ" like the 'e' in the English word "ending." You pronounce the letter "ø" like the 'eu' in the French word "deux." And finally, you pronounce the letter "å" like the very first part of the English word "oh." So just the 'o,' basically. If you have any other questions, please let us know. Thank you!
Jag tycker det blir MYCKET enklare om man räknar som på en klocka här i Sverige. Två och en halv blir alltså halv tre. Sedan gångar (sinds, som i någonsin på svenska) man bara med tjugo. Halv tre gånger tjugo = 50. Halvtredje-sinds-tyve = 50 på danska. Sen förkortar man bara till halvtreds... Men det kräver en del huvudräkning...
If I understand you question correctly it's like this: 60 is called "tres" because it's 20x3=60, it's short for "tresindstyve" which means something like "three times twenty". If you want to say 70 that is 20x4-(20/2)=70, and it's called "halvfjerds" (halvforths) because the fourth set of twenty is devided in half(10).
Als ich fand sehr wunderschön diesen Zahlraster, ich brauche es jeden Tag meines Lebens dennoch sei es nicht meines Vaterlands, aber allerdings sehr nah und überhaupt hautnah dem Herzen, ich war geboren in Hannover, ich liebe Dänemark, mir gefällt bis zur Seele dieser Raster, ich finde ihn genau meiner Richtung, ich erkläre durch dies Mittel meine Liebe zum ehrlichen Königsreich von DÄNEMARK. ++++DÄNEMARK ÜBER ALLES IN DER WELT++++
+centigradz Hi centigradz, Thank you for commenting. Using the phonetic alphabet, 30 is pronounced: [ˈtʁaðvə] You can also practice with: tra - th - ve (the 'e' at the end is pronounced like the 'e' in the English word "the") Hope this was helpful. If you have any other questions, please let us know. Thank you! Team DanishClass101.com
'As for hundred, it sounds like the English word hundred and shouldn't be that hard to remember' lol. It sounds nothing like it. Only similarity is the way it's written
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where comes the L from in hundred?
shouldn't it be written hunrel ?
2:03 You can immediately see all life and joy leaving her eyes as she speaks the multiples of 10
When I saw hundred appear on the screen my brain was fully prepared for the word hundred pronounced with like a Swedish accent or something. Then when she said 'hoorol' I was so shook
Lmfao 😭😭😭
She didn't say that though haha. I think it was pretty much pronounced as in Swedish except the usual spluttering at the end.
@jaep struiksma
I am a foreigner! (from a Danish point of view)
Hopefully a useful tip:
Danish somewhat follows the ‘vigesimal’ system, so think of the number 20.
Then focus on the very number (I’ll mark that with *) that multiplies it by 20.
So you’ll get the following logic:
- 60 (tres) = 3*x20 (3=tre)
- 80 (firs) = 4*x20 (4=fire)
And thus for the others, think of the word ‘halfway to’ (don’t follow the maths too much):
- 50 (halvtreds) = (halfway to 3*)x20 (‘halfway to tres’)
- 70 (halvfjerds) = (halfway to 4*)x20 (‘halfway to firs’)
- 90 (halvfems) = (halfway to 5*)x20 (‘halfway to fem’) (5=fem)
And for 30, 40 and 100: fairly close to English, so the pattern should be predictable here.
Very helpful, thanks!
English- 90 + 7
German- 7 + 90
Danish- 7 + (-½ + 5) x 20
It's easy right? 😄
just learn them by heart as if you were learning a non-indoeuropean language. Don't think about what they mean. It IS easy!
French: 4x20 + 10 + 7
😂
tusen takk for forklaringen!
jeg lærer norsk men også leser danske bøker. Tallene var alltid vanskelig i skrevet versjon.
Haha
"isn't it easy?" NO! IT F***ING ISNT!
Have you considered that you are just stupid?
@@Crypticmind242 Really? halvefems is minus half plus five times twenty = (5-0.5)*20 = 4.5 * 20 = 90
@@SergioMabres just learn them by heart :)) stop doing the counting:) it is easy :)
Its ez for me because i go to school here lawl
Yeah, it takes some time, but let's be honest, it's not really hard stuff
when i see denmark, or danish language, i remember my grandfather, he loved denmark, he loved danish language, unfortunaly he died before learning it, so i will learn danish IN HONOR OF MY GRANDFATHER LETS GO!
My story is the same. My grandfather was born there but I don't think he ever spoke it, or very little.
As the famous meme goes:
In most languages, the number 97 is expressed as 90+7 (as is in English, ninety-seven).
In German, it is 7+90 (siebenundneunzig, literally sevenandninety)
In Japanese, it is 9*10+7 (kyu ju nana, that is "nine ten seven")
In French, it is 4*20+10+7 (quatre-vingt-dix-sept, "four-twenty-ten-seven")
Finally, in Danish the number is expressed as 7+(-1/2+5)*20 (syvoghalvfems, "sevenandhalffives", where"halffive" means five without a half, and "-s" means multiplying by 20). I would be really surprised if there is a language with a more complex expression for 97.
First, how does me being fucking and/or Jew relate to my post? Second, whether I am a Jew depends on the definition of a Jew :)
Wow haha
+Alexander Stiefelmann I'd like to see some statistics on that. these things usually surprise us english speakers a lot
+Alexander Stiefelmann very suspicious try to speak your native language
+Juan R what is suspicious? The expressions for 97 are all true, you can look them up. The Danish number system, counting in twenties and expressing "Half x" when actually meaning "x-1 and a half" is quite known. There is a sketch in Norwegian somewhere on RUclips here when the Norwegians mock it (Danish and Norwegian are mutually intelligible but Norwegian has a "normal" number system).
I found this woman nice, she is a good teacher!
the famous potato in the throat
We dont have a fucking potato
FIK DIG!!!!!!!!!!!
I was told about the danish numbers system but i wasn't prepared
Today I decided to learn the Danish language. Although I don’t know anything, I am sure that I will learn it. Good luck to everyone.
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Just so you know, Norwegian is like an easier version from Danish. Recommend you to learn Norwegian first xD
Haha sikkert
+NorwayG00 What makes Danish so difficult isn't the grammar or the vocabulary, it's the pronunciation. Spoken Danish very rarely corresponds to the written word, as Danes love to swallow letters and syllables. When you're as used to phonetic languages (in which what you see is what you get) as I am, it can be confusing bordering on frustrating.
I would love to learn Norwegian if it's truly easier than Danish. But I need to learn to Danish.
Learn Icelandic... lets you understand allot of Norwegian, Danish, Faroese and some swedish. But that damn danish number system is just plainly brain melting!
Cathrin haha sant
2:33 “hundred” sounded like a tongue trick👅😂😂
Right around 2:19 I start laughing hysterically. The sincerity on her face like "yeah, you better believe it's going this way". Keep it real, Denmark 😎 jeg elsker dansk
Thank you so much! I have a really big Danich test tomorrow and you are saving my life here!👌🏼❤️
Elin Powwer which countries can you have Danish as a subject? (I'm Danish)
Sylvester Korstgård Kan det vara Island eller Färöarna kanske?
Excellent teaching method!
A really helpful video, so clear & easy to understand - HUGE thanks x
Danish 60 (tres) reminds me of Spanish three.
It's because it's a short form of tresindstyve which means 3 times 20. One day they basically said "fuck it" and said the number is just 3x, the "s" remaining to indicate they multiply.
50 is even more baffling since halvtredsindstyve literally means third half times 20, implying in fact 2 x 20 + 20 / 2.
70 and 90 are built around the same principle. Halvfjerds (fourth half) and Halvfems (fifth half).
I remember the times I'm in Denmark... going to buy something (when we did not have credit/bank cards) I just put all the money I had (biggest paper money I had in my wallet) on the counter and then I took the change.. and in the end I had only change... I could never ever figure out that crazy numbering system...
Omg, this is so hard to learn. Learning norwegian right now and I was curious to danish to. But it's really hard.
It's super easy! For example OTTEOGHALVTREDS is eight and then half a third times twenty, the half third meaning half on the way to three in other words two and a half and then multiply that by twenty which is fifty and don't forget the eight, so 58 !!!!!
The pronounciation is very difficult, I think. At least, impossibe to me. What that girl say does not look like the words written there on the screen.
English is the same. I am Italian and when I was learning English I was shocked by how many words had strange pronunciation. For instance, "like" is pronounced "laah-eek", and "does" is like "duhs", "one" is pronounced "wuhn", "enough" is "ee-nuf" etc.. there are many shocking pronunciations in English too, very different from the written words.
Danish is the French of Germanic languages, maybe even harder
Tak! This is easier than I expected!
So clear. Love your teaching method, could you upload more videos please.
Learning danish in school the danish number system put my brain in to blank mode. If you have ever had your computer doing the ''Blue screen of death'' that's what it felt like!
4:03 Louise is like "u guys are never gonna be able to say this" haha
Spanish: tres - 3
Danish: tres - 60
I am Norwegian and married to a Danish. I have no problem understanding this but I find the Norwegian numbers are more logical like femti, seksti,sytti, åtti, nitti.
I know danish thank you it kind of learned my cousin
Gonna have to listen to this on repeat 10 times. I am trying to learn how to tell time in danish but I can't do it without a mastery of counting.
Mange tak. These videos are great for beginners.
Tak! I've learned a lot!
I'm Danish and sitting here like "ohhh I forgot what 80 was"
IKR
English: "Four score and seven years ago." Also English: "Four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie."
it is very succesfull in 3 minute,mange tak
Oh my god it's like in French... Totally nonsense
Dem Notmen oiiii MÆLK SPIL
Dem Notmen French is logical. Danish is not... Really...
French is nothing like this.. it is basically equivalent to english except for 70-79 and 90-99
but French is way easier
@@gabrielabroda5663 try 1999, thanks god it is already passed
so nice thanks
As a dane. Its so freaking funny, to see almost everyone in the comments failing! 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Good luck!
OMG! The numbers! D: Is like a nightmare! D:
Undskyld XD
Sorry
No
Hahahaha
Hugo Vinicius Racist.
Tak!:3
The number system of combination is the opposite of hebrew, that is so funny.
We say "Ninety and eight".
Haha! Why are you learning Danish? Did you move to Denmark?
Meget fin, lærte jeg, at jeg forsøgte at lære numrene 9 år lidt på grund af dig (:
This is enough for my brain
its so easy i can already count to 1000 within an hour
complicated a lot, but i'll learn.
Wow wonderfull I like it really and I can learn
I love danish and I know some danish I know the counting from 1 to 50
Nice
Thank God I'm learning Swedish🇸🇪😆
Thank you so much, my sister is not this the lessons I work very hard in order to learn the Danish language, but I can not
It is hard but just keep Trying and maybe even watch some Danish youtubers!
Wow. Way different from Swedish and Norwegian. Any explanation as to the reason why the Danish numbers system is so different from the other peninsular Scandinavian languages?
Danish numbers are in the style of Old English and old Germanic and Danish just hasn't bothered changing, in the meantime it's neighboring languages have updated with the times and ditched things like counting by scores and mostly things like reverse numbers.
The Danish numbers from 50 and up are base 20 instead of base 10, much like French from 70 and up, meanwhile Danish also uses the german style of tens before ones, combine this and the numbering system appears quite alien to neighboring systems that count in only base 10 and always read numbers left to right without exception.
As mentioned the Danish style is the old way of doing it, some older generations in Norway still use that style in Norwegian though they are dying out, and you will find this way of counting in Old English texts as well, and as previously mentioned you can see parts of it in French and German as well.
As a swede I have given up danish counting. Other words are easier, like gammeldansk, Tuborg, Carlsberg...
It is like in German :) first unity and then decene :)
yes and same in Dutch!
Tak for videoen :D
Does anyone know what is the second pronunciation, when she says eleven it sounds different from the first to the second time.
The letter 6 in danish sounds like sex😂
Tus clases son muy didácticas, gracias Luisa :)
Im danish, and numbers are totally backwards saying, I prefer english, that all I have to say.
Fatal sunfish why backwards? omg, It's a nightmare in did
+Jesper Liljekrans You know, English used to do the same thing up until a few hundred years ago, and it's still occasionally found in poetry ("four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie").
thats very interesting to hear!
+Jesper Liljekrans "Fourscore and seven years ago..."
Mario Silvan in deed, lol
"Super easy"...🤯
Super ☺️
Taaaaak
Seksoghaltreds, isn't it easy?
No, no it is not, it doesn't make any sense!
+Litego Milkman haha, our number system is a little confusing. basically it's translated "Sixandfifty". even though halvtreds also could be translated as "halfsixty" but that is not a valid use of the term.
Haha you really made me laugh :P It's so funny that she keeps saying " Isn't it easy" and even I, a dane, knows that the danish numbers makes no sense :P
I think there's a misunderstanding regarding Danish numbers. This is not a 'different counting system'. The names differ greatly from other germanic languages so harder to remember but Danish people don't count or use numbers differently; it's just the names.
At least she doesn't spend time explaining the etymology of 50-90 (which confuses people and makes them think Danish numbers are more complicated than they are).
My first language is French, we say 'quatre-vingts' (4-20) for 80, but it has no bearing on how we count.
What about 21.22.23.24.25.26.27.28.29?
En og tyve - 21
To og tyve - 22
Tre og tyve - 23
Fire og tyve - 24
Fem og tyve - 25
Seks og tyve - 26
Syv og tyve - 27
Otte og tyve - 28
Ni og tyve - 29
Det er sjovt at se dette når man er dansk og et lyder bare f**king dumt når hun tæller til ty-ve :P
Vind DK hehe ja enigXD
😁🌷👏very good
She looks somewhat stunned when counting aloud.
If only i knew this off by heart ):, me being half danish myself i visit Denmark every year, i could speak near enough fluently up to age of 3/4, that is until, UK preschool started where i lost all my danish by the age of 6. ugh
I’m half danish and half English, my mother is British and my father is Danish, however we live in Denmark, I’ve always been able to speak both languages, because of my mother insisting she would mainly speak English to me
Wow so hard!!
it was easy
iam in morrocco i well stady danich
How do I pronounce "å","ø",and "æ"?
+Pualam Nusantara Hi Pualam Nusantara,
Thank you for commenting.
You pronounce the letter "æ" like the 'e' in the English word "ending."
You pronounce the letter "ø" like the 'eu' in the French word "deux."
And finally, you pronounce the letter "å" like the very first part of the English word "oh." So just the 'o,' basically.
If you have any other questions, please let us know.
Thank you!
hai ma brother😘
Jag tycker det blir MYCKET enklare om man räknar som på en klocka här i Sverige. Två och en halv blir alltså halv tre. Sedan gångar (sinds, som i någonsin på svenska) man bara med tjugo. Halv tre gånger tjugo = 50. Halvtredje-sinds-tyve = 50 på danska. Sen förkortar man bara till halvtreds... Men det kräver en del huvudräkning...
Why is there a halvfems when there is no fems ???
30
How it's pronounced: TREL-ve
How it's spelled: Tredive
Thanks i am stay denmark thankyou so mach
Kind of reminds me of the French system
I say 40 when I'm petting my Siberian cat. xD
This girl is so sweet and pretty and friendly
Id like to hear the logic behind the names of the tens, cause I can see none
If I understand you question correctly it's like this: 60 is called "tres" because it's 20x3=60, it's short for "tresindstyve" which means something like "three times twenty". If you want to say 70 that is 20x4-(20/2)=70, and it's called "halvfjerds" (halvforths) because the fourth set of twenty is devided in half(10).
Anton Nordlund yeah, I’ve looked it up but thanks. It’s still super odd
sometimes its pronounced as "D", sometimes as "L" but why? what's the reason?
The tens from 50 to 90 are too hard😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
20= tyVe or tyWe (prononciation)
Its difficult to speak g for r.
I’m from Denmark
Wow, they actually say ( (-1/2)+5 )*20 for 90 omg
It's easy right? 😊
Als ich fand sehr wunderschön diesen Zahlraster, ich brauche es jeden Tag meines Lebens dennoch sei es nicht meines Vaterlands, aber allerdings sehr nah und überhaupt hautnah dem Herzen, ich war geboren in Hannover, ich liebe Dänemark, mir gefällt bis zur Seele dieser Raster, ich finde ihn genau meiner Richtung, ich erkläre durch dies Mittel meine Liebe zum ehrlichen Königsreich von DÄNEMARK.
++++DÄNEMARK ÜBER ALLES IN DER WELT++++
I can count from 0 - 100 in Danish
how do you actually pronounce 30. here it sounds like thru-ver but i hear some ppl say it as thruth-ver
+centigradz Hi centigradz,
Thank you for commenting.
Using the phonetic alphabet, 30 is pronounced: [ˈtʁaðvə]
You can also practice with: tra - th - ve (the 'e' at the end is pronounced like the 'e' in the English word "the")
Hope this was helpful.
If you have any other questions, please let us know.
Thank you!
Team DanishClass101.com
+Learn Danish with DanishClass101.com Mange Tak. How do you pronounce noget and nogle and nogen?
+centigradz noget = no-et,
nogen = no-en and nogle = no = no-le
Yay im danish :D
Hej Luise. Mange tak til din insats.
I'm find 30 really hard can you help me please.
There are many people who finds tredive (30) really hard but it's basically 'tra' 'the' 've'
jeg elsker louise
Number 1, 7, 8 sounds like Georgian, which is weird because it's not related to any other language group 😮
Idk what am I doing here lol
'As for hundred, it sounds like the English word hundred and shouldn't be that hard to remember' lol. It sounds nothing like it. Only similarity is the way it's written
goodness gracious..
This lesson makes me want to learn all the numbers in the word !!
Its so defecalt but I will learn