How to say the number 92

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Denmark what the fuck are you doing

#	🇩🇰
1	en
2	to
3	tre
4	fire
5	fem
6	seks
7	syv
8	otte
9	ni
10	ti
11	elleve
12	tolv
13	tretten
14	fjorten
15	femten
16	seksten
17	sytten
18	atten
19	nitten
20	tyve
21	enogtyve (oneandtwenty)
22	toogtyve (twoandtwenty)
30	tredive
40	fyrre
50	halvtreds
60	tres (threes[core])
70	halvfjerds (½fourths[core])
80	firs (fours[core])
90	halvfems (½fifths[core])
92	tooghalvfems (twoand½fifths[core])
100	hundred

The 4½ = ●●●●◖ = [four +] ½fifth is not unique to Danish. In Czech, we say „čtvrt na osm“ (quarter to eight), „půl osmé“ (half of eighth) and „tři čtvrtě na osm“ (¾ to eight) to mean 19:15, 19:30 and 19:45, respectively, so I kinda get it.
Similarly, in German, 🕢=„halb acht“.

Dude their 4 is fire.
German "halb acht" only refers to time tho.
- Ours too. Just giving another example of this counting principle to show it's not confined to Danish numbers.
seks lol
- German has the same problem but they can differentiate sechs/Sex by using halbduzend/Geschlechtsverkehr.

And ninety, halvfems, short for halvfemsindstyve or halv-fem-sinds-tyve, means “fifth half times twenty”, or “four scores plus half of the fifth score” [4½ * 20].
I think the Britons used scores as well for some time.
- Yeah, this isn't an excuse.
Germany and France are already stupid, but Denmark combines them and makes it even worse.
- Yeah.. This is not the right way Danes say it.
  It's not tooghalvfemsindstyvende
  It's more like toårhalfæms. Nobody says sindstyvende, only people who don't know the language...

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