2026-06-27 20:57 UTC
I'm a native Danish speaker and yesterday I was asking where the number one of called "en" or "et" in Danish .
Apparently the number is called "en" but the digit is called "et".
Does that make sense???
Is that the same as "un" and "uno" in Spanish?
#language #danish
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@jgivoni@mastodon.social 2026-06-28 04:34
Apparently not. Language is complicated. A number can be a cardinal number (used to count), a quantifier (used to answer how many) or a digit (used for "spelling out"). Mostly the first two agree, except in German and Spanish. Also mostly, the first and the last agree, except in Danish. Only 7 random European languages sampled...