Counting in Faroese
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Language overview
Faroese (føroyskt) is an Indo-European language that belongs to the North Germanic or Nordic branch of the Germanic languages. Official language of the Faroe Islands, it counts about 50,000 speakers.
Faroese numbering rules
- In Faroese, the digits one to three have different gender forms depending on whether they refer to a masculine, a feminine, or a neutral noun, and they are declined too. They also have a plural form used to count items that come in pairs, such as shoes or socks, as well as plural nouns, like a married couple (eini hjún). These plural forms are einir (feminine: einar, neutral: eini), tvinnir and trinnir. While counting, however, they remain in the masculine form. The other numbers only have one form.
- Digits and numbers from zero to twelve are specific words: null [0], ein [1] (feminine: ein, neutral: eitt), tveir [2] (feminine: tvær, neutral: tvey), tríggir [3] (feminine: tríggjar, neutral: trý), fýra [4], fimm [5], seks [6], sjey [7], átta [8], níggju [9], tíggju [10], ellivuefu [11], and tólv [12].
- From thirteen to nineteen, the numbers are formed from the matching digits, adding a form of the word for ten (tan or tjan) at the end: trettan [13], fjúrtan [14], fimtan [15], sekstan [16], seytjan [17], átjan [18], and nítjan [19].
- The tens are formed by adding the beginning of the word for ten (tíggju) at the end of the multiplier digit, with the exception of ten and twenty: tíggju [10], tjúgu [20], tríati [30], fýrati [40], fimmti [50], seksti [60], sjeyti [70], áttati [80], and níti [90]. A formal form of the tens from thirty to ninety is also in use where we can find a trace of a vigesimal system: tretivu [30], fjøruti [40], hálvtrýss [50] (short for hálvtrýsinstjúgu [3*20 - 20/2]), trýss [60] (short for trýsinstjúgu [3*20]), hálvfjerðs [70] (short for hálvfjerðsinstjúgu [4*20 - 20/2], where fjerðs replaces fýrs), fýrs [80] (short for fýrsinstjúgu [4*20]), and hálvfems [90] (short for hálvfemsinstjúgu [5*20 - 20/2]).
- From twenty-one to ninety-nine, the tens and units are joined with the word og (and) but the unit being is put before the ten (e.g.: ein og tríati [31], fimm og fimmti [55]).
- Scale numbers are nouns with a particular gender, and they have a plural form distinct from the singular one above one thousand: hundrað [100] and túsund [1,000] are neutral and invariable, millión [million] is feminine (plural form: milliónir). Being gendered, they use the matching gender form of their multiplier if it is one to three (e.g.: (eitt) hundrað [100], tvey túsund [2,000], tríggir milliónir [3 million]).
- The word og is used to separate the numbers in groups of three digits (e.g.: ein og tjúgu [21], hundrað og ein og tjúgu [121]).
Books
Numbers list
| 1 – ein 2 – tveir 3 – tríggir 4 – fýra 5 – fimm 6 – seks 7 – sjey 8 – átta 9 – níggju | 10 – tíggju 11 – ellivu 12 – tólv 13 – trettan 14 – fjúrtan 15 – fimtan 16 – sekstan 17 – seytjan 18 – átjan | 19 – nítjan 20 – tjúgu 30 – tríati 40 – fýrati 50 – fimmti 60 – seksti 70 – sjeyti 80 – áttati 90 – níti | 100 – hundrað 1,000 – túsund one million – ein millión one billion – ein milliard |
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Danish, Faroese, and Norwegian (Bokmål).
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