Master Dutch Numbers

Like German, Dutch places the ones digit before the tens — so 24 is vierentwintig ("four-and-twenty"). English once followed this same pattern (think "four-and-twenty blackbirds") but reversed the order centuries ago, while Dutch kept the traditional Germanic form. When the unit ends in a vowel, Dutch adds a diaeresis to keep pronunciation clear, as in tweeëntwintig (22).

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