Timeline for How to read years in German?
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| Jan 26, 2021 at 16:37 | comment | added | Polygnome | In spoken language, people will say "neunzehn-füfnundneunzig" much more often than "neunzenhundert-und-fünfundneunzig". Also, for the 20th century, the century is sometimes ommitted. "Wann wurde Kohl gewählt?" - "Ich glaube, das war 82, und dann bis 98." | |
| Mar 27, 2018 at 7:10 | comment | added | äüö | @ComFreek: this is another story that has nothing to do with this topic. Zwo is actually only used instead of "zwei" on spelling long numbers - just to prevent one gets it wrong with the similarly sounding "drei" | |
| May 17, 2015 at 12:48 | history | edited | user unknown | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 17, 2015 at 9:44 | comment | added | ComFreek | Rarely, people say "zwotausendfünfzehn" as well. | |
| May 17, 2015 at 8:21 | history | edited | user2183 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 17, 2015 at 8:20 | comment | added | user2183 | @TaW: I agree this must change as the 22nd century approaches, but as it's quite likely that the English style will become standard way before that point anyway, I chose not to mention the fact. | |
| May 17, 2015 at 3:30 | comment | added | TaW | 2115 zweitausendeinhundertfünfzehn We'll see, we'll see.. | |
| May 16, 2015 at 15:03 | comment | added | rhavin | Additionally, following ponounciations are common: 2015: Zwanzigfünfzehn; 1945: Neuzehnfünfundvierzig; generally, its also common to split the number in two numbers and concatenate them, as long as there is no number <10 involved. | |
| May 16, 2015 at 6:31 | history | edited | user2183 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 16, 2015 at 6:03 | vote | accept | Jimmy | ||
| May 16, 2015 at 5:52 | history | answered | user2183 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |