I’m learning how to count in Italian. Can someone please explain this?
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Italian here, you really just need to remember 17, 18 and 19 being different, everything else follows similar patterns even as you go into the hundreds (-cento), thousands (-mila), millions (milioni) etc
Always found it amusing too that those 3 just said “nah we’re special”.
Edit: I’m a little dumb, check reply below me for a better take lol
If you think about it it's actually the opposite, 17 18 19 are normal as ventisette, ventotto, trentasettw, trentotto, and even ventuno ventidue and so on follow the same logic. It's actually 11 to 16 that are the special one. It's like english (where 11 and 12 are exceptions) but we took also 13 14 15 and 16 for good measure
And Spanish follows the same format as Italian.
Once, doce, trece, catorce, quince,dieciséis etc
It does, 16 (sedici) is the only difference since italy still follows the number+decem rule