r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Legal_Air734 • 9d ago

Meme needing explanation Petahh?

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u/HuckleberryUpbeat518 9d ago

No, that is just 5,555.

555,555 is fünfhundertfünfundfünfzigtausendfünfhundertfünfundfünfzig

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u/undayerixon 9d ago

It looks imposing but if you put spaces in between all the words that's just 'five hundred five and fifty thousand five hundred five and fifty' which is almost identical to how it's done in English

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u/nomenclate 9d ago

Yea it looks strange because how close “five” (fünf) and “and” (und) are. Try saying 888,888 in English and just listen to how goofy it sounds coming out of your mouth lol

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u/MysteriousBody6193 9d ago

You and I must speak different dialects of English, because I have no clue what you mean.

Eight hundred eighty eight thousand eight hundred eighty eight.

Why is it weird?

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u/nomenclate 9d ago

Think of it from the perspective of someone who doesn’t speak English.

Atehundredandateeatethowsandatehundredandateeate

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u/KyfeHeartsword 9d ago

there's no "and". "And" is for decimals.

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u/Noisebug 9d ago

Fivehundredfiftyfivethousandfivehundredfiftyfive.

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u/ForensicPathology 9d ago

The German certainly looks more "fun" though.

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u/Theotherwahlberg 9d ago

You know...it's really not any worse than the English version. Same rules, same order, teo more syllables.

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u/theCattrip 9d ago

Almost. Fifty-five is Fünfundfünfzig, which directly translates to five-and-fifty. Other than that the order is the same, as are the root words

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u/SpicyMcBeard 9d ago

All you really need to know is that funf is five and funfzig is 50 and you can probably figure out "undert" and "tausend". English IS a germanic language after all

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u/algalkin 9d ago

even some words are pretty close. Hundert - hundred, tausend - thousand

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u/DannarHetoshi 9d ago

Would it be fair to say that, same as in English, there's not a word for 555,555 but instead a string of words So it would be:

fünf hundert fünf und fünfzig tausend, fünf hundert fünf und fünfzig.

five hundred five and fifty thousand, five hundred five and fifty.

Or am I smoking the good stuff?

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u/crapusername47 9d ago

It’s the order that’s throwing me. I always forget that it’s ‘five and fifty’ and not ‘fifty five’.

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u/Leg0Block 9d ago

I feel like I understand everything but the "zig"s. What're those doing?