Are there any other languages that actually read out the whole number when saying a year, instead of shortening it?

[KostasKouvalis]

I didn't really know how to word that question, but I'll give you an example. Take the year 1492 for instance. In American English at least, we would say, "Fourteen Ninety Two". Some people say "Fourteen-hundred and ninety-two", but most say "Fourteen Ninety Two". In Poland though they say, "One Thousand Four Hundred Ninety Two". Or if they are talking past tense they would say, "In the One thousand-four hundredth-ninety-second year"

I grew up in the US my whole life, so I had no idea this was a thing XD, and when I was doing a tour or a fort, I had a Polish guide and she asked me if I knew what year the fort was built, and I told her the year the way we'd say it in American English and she said I was wrong, and said the whole number and I was like, that's literally what I said. XD I did the same thing when I filmed a video for a Polish TV channel. They must've been so confused. XD

But I'm wondering if there any other languages that read out the whole number, instead of just shortening it.

[AviatorTom]

French often, but not always, says the long form of the number.

1492 in French is mille quatre cent quatre-vingt douze. (one thousand four hundred four-twenties and fourteen (ninety-two) translated to English). I think that's true for most (all?) Latin languages.

[KostasKouvalis]

Metropolitan French involves math. They say like 60+10 instead of 70. Yeah see, that's exactly what I'm talking about. What the actual fuck? If I had to tell French people numbers, I would be fucked.
So it's more or less the same, except they do the extra math part. It's weird because Belgian French doesn't do that.

Wait WHAT? Rereading that, that makes ZERO sense. How in the hell does that translate to 1492? "one thousand four hundred " Okay, THAT part makes sense. But after that, I am completely lost. How in the hell does four 20s and 14 make 92?

[AviatorTom]

@KostasKouvalis Sorry, my typo. "quatre-vingt douze" is four twenties twelve, not fourteen

[KostasKouvalis]

Jesus Christ! Fuck that! If I ever move to France, I'm learning the Belgian numbers and if they want to bitch about it, they can bitch about it

[alice55]

Belgian number are the exact same as French one except for the 90 and 70 ...(90 is nonante and 70 septante but all the other one are the same as us so there's no logics in what you're saying, you'll still have to use the French ways of 80 that you dislike so much...) Quatre vingt which mean in English four twenty, it's a multiplication 20 multiply by 4 make 80. Be it in France or Belgium it's the same things.
For 70 we say 60 and 10 which just mean 60 + 10 = 70 (even in America 60 + 10 equal 70 not hard).
and for 90 same as for the 70 it's (4 multiply by 20) =80 then 80 + 10 = 90
Everything is logics.
Belgium only have 70 and 90 as different from the French if not even their 80 is said the same ways as us.

But foreign nimber are always hard to learn no matter the languge for example I'm totally unable to learn the British ways of saying the hours, I learnt it as a child but have never been able to understand the whole past o'clock stuff but I don't need it so not important.

[KostasKouvalis]

@alice55 I'll be honest, I kind of wanted to get your input here, but I'm also a little embarrassed that you saw this, because I sound so mean and ignorant here🫣

I thought it was different in Belgian because of a YouTube video. They were comparing Metropolitan French and Belgian French, and the Belgian girl said they don't do that. It actually may have been 70 she was talking about. And the French girl said French like to be different and make things more difficult😂 But pretty much everyone I see on the internet thinks it's strange that you guys do your numbers that way.

I'm not confused by the math, the math isn't difficult, it's more just WHY? For me, it would probably be easier to not worry about the math and just learn how to say each number one by one. Or just write them each time.
And a lot of people dislike it honestly.

I had to look up what you were talking about. For me, it's not that difficult because we do that in Polish too. It also exists in America, but it's not the standard, though some people talk that way.

https://youtu.be/zn_0oNa6G0M?si=D8AlY_AEKvPkz8Yl

Anyways, thanks for your input and I hope you don't think I'm an idiot XD

[itsannalee]

Indonesian, we read whole the number.
Example : 1492 (one thousand four hundred and ninety two) = seribu empat ratus sembilan puluh dua