![]() ![]() Japanese and Korean also use similar conventions, where larger numbers are created by compounding the names for smaller ones. Here, 92 is written jiǔ shí èr, which translates as “nine ten two”. And in Danish, the word for 92 is tooghalvfems, where halvfems, meaning 90,is an abbreviation of the Old Norse word halvfemsindstyve, or “four and a half times twenty”.Īnd in English, words like “twelve” or “eleven” don’t give many clues as to the structure of the number itself (these names actually come from the Old Saxon words ellevan and twelif, meaning “one left” and “two left”, after 10 has been subtracted).Ĭontrast this with Mandarin Chinese, where the relationship between the tens and the units is very clear. ![]()
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