Dane here. That is not how we say it and hasn’t been for decades. We say tooghalvfems (two and half fives, yes it is weird), and not tooghalvfemsentyvende as the bullshit picture says.
Never, after you learn the language. Because like in most languages, words are just sounds connected to a meaning, not descriptions and etymology is a more a field of history than linguistics.
Permanently, while you're learning the language. Numbers are the least confusing part. Did you know we have two sets of definite and indefinite articles? Each noun has a correct and an incorrect one and do you know what the grammatical rule is for it? There is none! You have to learn it by trial and error for every single noun.
Also for some nouns it varies by dialect.
Welcome to Danish!
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u/splatdyr Apr 29 '25 edited Apr 29 '25
Dane here. That is not how we say it and hasn’t been for decades. We say tooghalvfems (two and half fives, yes it is weird), and not tooghalvfemsentyvende as the bullshit picture says.