Counting by hundreds in Danish and Greek

[dougie_monty]

I have a language book which doesn’t give much information on higher numbers in these two languages.
Spanish, of course, has irregular hundred numbers like quinientos, and Russian uses a “dual” for hundreds higher than 200. But the book has no information on whether the Danish for 300 is tre hundrede, or whatever.
And the language book gives the Greek for “200” as *diakosioi,[/io] but nothing higher.
Anyone know the answers, please?

[mittu]

Numbers above 100 are written in several words.

For hundreds (100 to 999) add the name for 1 to 9 before “hundrede” (in
two words). In this case 1 = “et” (and not “en”). If the number also
have tens/ones it is followed by “og” and the tens/ones name as outlined
above, ie.

“[hundreds] hundrede og [ones]og[tens]”

The thousands are handled in the same way as the hundreds, except that
there is no “og” added between the thousands and the hundreds, ie.

“[thousands] tusinde [hundreds] hundrede og [ones]og[tens]”

Please observe where spaces have been used above.

Some numbers 1, 101, 201, 301, … 1001, 1101, … 9801, 9901 have a
special rule. If I am counting the ones are named “en”, but if it is
used as, e.g., “Page 201” the ones are named “et”. The latter is assumed
in the examples at the end.

Taken from: http://www.grasshopperllc.com/Developer/language/dansk.txt

Hope that clears up some of the mysteries of Danish for you

[dougie_monty]

@mittu

Taken from: http://www.grasshopperllc.com/Developer/language/dansk.txt

Hope that clears up some of the mysteries of Danish for you

Tak.
I gave up years ago trying to figure out where Danish got its words for thirty, forty, fifty, etc., e. g. “firs,” “halvtreds,” etc.