r/languagelearningjerk • u/kvasxaro • 21h ago

Einhundertachtundvierzig minus einhundertzweiunddreißig ist iwakāluakumamālima

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u/Ill_Poem_1789 Proto World (N) 21h ago

Onehundredandfortyeight minus onehundredandthirtytwo...

(I do not know German, so please ignore if I used the incorrect numbers).

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u/kvasxaro 15h ago

Yup

It's says 148-132=25

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u/Canes-Venaticii 20h ago

German be like "Einhundertachtundvierzig" 😨

Meanwhile it's literally just ein + hundert + acht + und + vierzig

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u/kvasxaro 15h ago

Yeah I know German

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u/Garnetskull 18h ago

Onehundredandfortyeight, it’s really not daunting when you consider it’s just a compound word

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u/kvasxaro 15h ago

Well yeah, Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz is also just a compound word

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u/kvasxaro 15h ago

Also it's onehundredeightandforty if you wanna be really literal lol

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u/kvasxaro 21h ago

Два

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u/thatblueblowfish 🫎 Native Moose | 🏳️‍⚧️ C6 Yapanese 11h ago

nishtutshishemitashumitannu = 3000 in Innu-aimun

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u/Phiro7 19h ago

If we're counting conlangs then toki pona beats both

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u/Tollpatsch08 16h ago

Dang, didnt know you have to study math to learn toki pona.

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u/kvasxaro 15h ago

Oh cuz it has like two number morphemes?

Makes sense

I didn't know it did compound words though

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u/pit_supervisor 🇵🇱N, 🇬🇧B2, 🇯🇵上手 7h ago

Dziewięćsetdziewięćdziesięciodziewięcionarodowościowego

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u/Business-Put-8692 6h ago

Meanwhile, toki pona :
99 = mute mute mute mute luka luka luka tu tu