How do you say the number 175487 in your language?

[@HarshadWarnekar]

In Hindi (India) the pronunciation is very similar to what was explained for German. It is pronounced as ek (one) lakh (100 thousand) pachattar (5 over seventy) sahasra (thousand) char sau (four hundred) satyasi (7 over eighty).

[@Bunnokazooie]

In Cambodia, the numbers 6 7 8 and 9 literally mean "five one" "five two" " five three" and "fiver four". But their words for fifty, sixty, seventy, eighty, and ninety do not follow this pattern.

[@SuviTuuliAllan]

In Finnish, a Uralic language, it's written as 175 487 (a space between, I used the non-breaking space here) or "sataseitsemänkymmentäviisituhattaneljäsataakahdeksankymmentäseitsemän", i.e. "hundred, seven tens, five thousands; four hundreds, eight tens, seven". We obviously use base ten ("kymmenjärjestelmä") but there are some hints of base 8 as possibly the original system; the words for eight and nine are 'kahdeksan' and 'yhdeksän', respectively. Two from ten and one from ten? Who knows? Integer and fractional parts are separated by a comma. The language is not Indo-European unlike almost all languages in Europe. Most Uralic languages are written in Cyrillic but Finnish and a few others in the Latin alphabet. Many East Germanic, likely mostly Swedish, loanwords exist in Finnish. The words for one thousand and one hundred aren't among those, as (according to Wiktionary) 'sata' is from Proto-Indo-Iranian and 'tuhat' from Proto-Baltic. 0 nolla 1 yksi 2 kaksi 3 kolme 4 neljä 5 viisi 6 kuusi 7 seitsemän 8 kahdeksan 9 yhdeksän 10 kymmenen 11 yksitoista (lit. one of another) 12 kaksitoista 13 kolmetoista 14 neljätoista 15 viisitoista 16 kuusitoista 17 seitsemäntoista 18 kahdeksantoista 19 yhdeksäntoista 20 kaksikymmentä (lit. two tens) 100 sata 1000 tuhat 10e6 miljoona 10e9 miljardi 10e12 biljoona 10e15 biljardi etc.

[@stefanskogberg1984]

Hyvä selitys! Good explanation! Finnish is a great (but tricky at times) language.

[@scmtuk3662]

Did you know that while soixante-dix, quatre-vingt, and quatre-vingt-dix are the usual French words for 70, 80 and 90, there are actual French words for these numbers that follow the same pattern as the other multiples of 10. 70 = septante (French-speaking Belgium and Switzerland and other places) 80 = huitante (French-speaking Switzerland) or octante (French-speaking Belgium and also France itself) 90 = nonante (French-speaking Belgium and Switzerland and other places) For example, "He waited for ninety minutes" in French would be "Il a attendu nonante minutes" in Belgium.

[@cherryperentesis1370]

Coming from someone who speaks German, your pronunciation was fantastic!!

[@Winterstark]

In Croatian the number would be sto sedamdeset pet tisuća četiristo osamdeset sedam, which is word-for-word exactly the same logic as in English. In Japanese they would also use a marker for tens of thousands (万), so they would write the number as 十七万五千四百八十七 (juunanaman gosen yonhyaku hachijuu nana), literally translated as 17 tenthousand 5 thousand 4 hundred 8 ten 7, although I'm pretty sure they would simply write that number using Arabic numerals.

[@SteveHeller19]

In Hebrew, numbers were traditionally encoded with non-place value letters, which are still used in dates. Fri, 16 September 2022 = 20th of Elul, 5782 = כ׳ בֶּאֱלוּל תשפ״ב. The single and double tic marks show these are not regular words. The year (תשפ״ב) typically has no letter for 5000 as it's assumed, but it can be added. Also, 700 is written with two letters for 400 and 300.

[@CristiNeagu]

3:42 It would have been worth here reminding everyone of the beginning of a very famous speech: *_"Four score and seven years_* ago our fathers brought forth, upon this continent, a new nation..."

[@Ranjithuganda]

In Sinhala or Sinhalese (Sri Lanka) we say One hundred and seventy five thousand , Four hundred and eighty seven. 175000 + 487. එක් ලක්ෂ (100000)හැත්තෑපන්දහස් (75000) හාරසිය (400)අසු (80)හතර (4)

[@JamesTantonMath]

Beautiful! Thank you for sharing!

[@TheKivifreak]

not sure where it's from but I'm often using: 175'487

[@KaterynaSeniuk]

In Ukrainian it could be written as 175487 or 175.487(to separate thousands) сто сімдесят п'ять тисяч чотириста вісімдесят сім. And the logic is exactly like in English language

[@marlonbryanmunoznunez3179]

No Spanish yet? It would be the base ten way: "Ciento setenta y cinco mil cuatrocientos ochenta y siete". We group the numbers in groups of three to say them. There's however a small twist to the large numbers: the English "billion" is "mil millones" in Spanish which literally means "one thousand millions". Our "billón" is one Trillion in English, you gotta be careful when translating big numbers between English and Spanish.

[@ahmadmazbouh]

in arabic we do the same as in German edit: it looks like this ١٧٥٤٨٧

[@maestramarcardenas-loutzen8121]

Cent sepdek kvin mil kvarcent okdek sep.