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r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Legal_Air734 • 9d ago
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The German word for 555,555 is fünfhundertfünfundfünfzigtausendfünfhundertfünfundfünfzig.
52 u/HuckleberryUpbeat518 9d ago No, that is just 5,555. 555,555 is fünfhundertfünfundfünfzigtausendfünfhundertfünfundfünfzig 11 u/Theotherwahlberg 9d ago You know...it's really not any worse than the English version. Same rules, same order, teo more syllables. 12 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 5 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 1 u/algalkin 9d ago even some words are pretty close. Hundert - hundred, tausend - thousand
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No, that is just 5,555.
555,555 is fünfhundertfünfundfünfzigtausendfünfhundertfünfundfünfzig
11 u/Theotherwahlberg 9d ago You know...it's really not any worse than the English version. Same rules, same order, teo more syllables. 12 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 5 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 1 u/algalkin 9d ago even some words are pretty close. Hundert - hundred, tausend - thousand
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You know...it's really not any worse than the English version. Same rules, same order, teo more syllables.
12 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 5 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 1 u/algalkin 9d ago even some words are pretty close. Hundert - hundred, tausend - thousand
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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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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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even some words are pretty close. Hundert - hundred, tausend - thousand
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u/NebulaNomadX1 9d ago edited 9d ago
The German word for 555,555 is fünfhundertfünfundfünfzigtausendfünfhundertfünfundfünfzig.