Numbers and age
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Now we'll discuss coskian numbers and how to say how old you are:
For numbers 1-12 you need to memorize them, but they're similar to english/german/dutch ones, they go as follows:
En, tje, trej, fur, fjf, sjjks, sebben, ajt, nau, tan, elwen, twölf.
From 13-19 you do something similar to english "N-teen", in coskian you do N-stan: trejjstan, furstan, fjfstan, sjjksstan, sebbenstan, ajtstan and naustan.
From 20-90 they end in N-teg, the exception being 20, being twanteg, then trejteg, furteg, fjfteg, sjjksteg, sebbenteg, ajtteg and nautteg, like in german, for example, for saying 21, you say en-and-twanteg (one-and-twenty), spelled with hyphens.
100-900 is done with the word "hönderd", meaning 100, note that for 100 you say just "hönderd" and not "*en hönderd" like in english, though you do say "tje hönderd" for 200, same until 900.
1000 is "tejsend", and works like "hönderd".
Example: 999999 is "nau hönderd nau-and-nautteg tejsend nau hönderd nau-and-nautteg"
For saying your age you use the structure "X er N jaar(en) eldë", "jaar" is the word for year and "eldë" is the definite form of "ald", meaning old, for asking age you ask "hjöömeg jaaren eldë er tu?"
Example: "hjöömeg jaaren eldë er tu?"
"Ek er fjf-and-twanteg jaaren eldë"