JAPANESE - Counting
In Japanese, counting is simple. You have your numbers zero through ten, a hundred, a thousand, and so on. Unlike in English, you don't need to memorise new words for eleven, twelve, thirteen, [ ... ] twenty, thirty, forty, etc. When you get to eleven, you use the 10 plus 1; twelve is 10-2, thirteen is 10-3, [ ... ] twenty is 2-10, thirty is 3-10, forty is 4-10, etc. Ninety-nine is 9-10-9. When you get past the one- and two-digit set of numbers, you go on in the same style: One-hundred-eleven is 100-10-1, one-hundred-twelve is 100-10-2, one-hundred-ninety-nine is 100-9-10-9, three-thousand-four-hundred-seventy-two is 3-1000-4-100-7-10-2.
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