Counting in Saterland Frisian

Language overview

Forty-two in Saterland Frisian Saterland Frisian (Seeltersk), also known as Sater Frisian or Saterlandic, is a language that belongs to the Indo-European family, in the germanic group. Dialect of the East Frisian language, it is spoken in Lower Saxony, Germany, and counts about one thousand speakers.

Due to lack of data, we can only count accurately up to 999,999 in Saterland Frisian. Please contact me if you can help me counting up from that limit.

Saterland Frisian numbers list

  • 1 – een
  • 2 – two
  • 3 – tjo
  • 4 – fjauer
  • 5 – fieuw
  • 6 – säks
  • 7 – soogen
  • 8 – oachte
  • 9 – njuugen
  • 10 – tjoon
  • 11 – alwen
  • 12 – tweelich
  • 13 – trättien
  • 14 – fjautien
  • 15 – füüftien
  • 16 – säkstien
  • 17 – soogentien
  • 18 – achttien
  • 19 – njuugentien
  • 20 – twintich
  • 30 – trüütich
  • 40 – fjautich
  • 50 – füüftich
  • 60 – säkstich
  • 70 – soogentich
  • 80 – tachentich
  • 90 – njuugentich
  • 100 – hunnert
  • 1,000 – duusend

Saterland Frisian numbering rules

Now that you’ve had a gist of the most useful numbers, let’s move to the writing rules for the tens, the compound numbers, and why not the hundreds, the thousands and beyond (if possible).

  • Digits and numbers from one to twelve are specific words: een (masculine: aan) [1], two (masculine: twäin) [2], tjo (masculine: träi) [3], fjauer [4], fieuw [5], säks [6], soogen [7], oachte [8], njuugen [9], tjoon [10], alwen [11], and tweelich [12].
  • From thirteen to nineteen, the numbers are formed from the matching multipliar digit, adding the word for ten (tien) at the end: trättien [13], fjautien [14], füüftien [15], säkstien [16], soogentien [17], achttien [18], and njuugentien [19].
  • The tens are formed by adding the suffix -tich at the end of the digits, with the exception of ten: tjoon [10], twintich [20], trüütich [30], fjautich [40], füüftich [50], säkstich [60], soogentich [70], tachentich [80], and njuugentich [90].
  • From twenty-one to ninety-nine, the tens and units are joined with the word un (and), but the unit is said before the ten (e.g.: eenuntrüütich [31], fieuwunfjautich [45]).
  • Hundred (hunnert) and thousand (duusend) are not separated from their multiplier by a space (e.g.: twohunnert [200], tjoduusend [3,000], tjoonduusend [10,000]).

Write a number in full in Saterland Frisian

Let’s move now to the practice of the numbering rules in Saterland Frisian. Will you guess how to write a number in full? Enter a number and try to write it down in your head, or maybe on a piece of paper, before displaying the result.

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