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Hi Alida F, That is a good question. I never noticed that. I looked it up on the web. According to the web article all the numbers in the thirties should be spelled with ßig at the end and not zig. That's not true for other numbers. Twenty, for example, is zwanzig. So, I'm pretty sure it is a mistake in the lesson. I have found a few typos and misspellings from time to time myself.

Hi Alida, It is a spelling mistake in the lesson as Byron already mentioned. The thirties series is written with ß instead of z so it is einunddreißig, zweiundreißig etc. Thank you for mentioning this to us and apologies for the confusion. Gruß Paul

yes,it is tricky.I sometimes get confused with this!

Well I guess I answered my own question Concerning Zig verses ß. I just knew there had to be an explanation because I've come to learn that The Germans have a reason for everything and it seems that it is not a mistake after all. After some research, here is the reason why. it's because of the old words like " Zwanzig" in old high German was high German " ZweinZig" for Now spelled Zwanzig The pronunciation and spelling is different. so my guess is that time to time we will find words that has been change from regional or Class to standard German in today's world.

Hi Guys, Looks like the person that started this thread decided to delete the question and no links were included in the posts. So, anybody that reads this will have no idea what lesson you guys were talking about. :D Here are the numbers (cardinal, ordinal, and numerical adverbs): http://goo.gl/Y7Nri3 8) Byron is right. Only (30-39) dreißig-neununddreißig use the eszett character and are used everywhere like that (30th, 30, 130, 1030, 31st). :D Here are all the numbers written with eszett: http://german.about.com/library/anfang/blanfang08.htm Die Zahlen 31-40 31 einunddreißig 36 sechsunddreißig 32 zweiunddreißig 37 siebenunddreißig 33 dreiunddreißig 38 achtunddreißig 34 vierunddreißig 39 neununddreißig 35 fünfunddreißig 40 vierzig History of dreißig (dreissig-Switzerland) http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/drei%C3%9Fig :D Rocket German Lessons on Numbers (I took the titles directly from the lessons, I have very little patience for correcting English mistakes.) :o Cardinal Numbers: 2.6 Numbers - Part 1 http://members.rocketlanguages.com/lessons/62 2.7 Numbers - Part 2 http://members.rocketlanguages.com/lessons/63 Numbers Beginners http://members.rocketlanguages.com/lessons/918 Advanced Numbers http://members.rocketlanguages.com/lessons/919 :o Ordinal Numbers: (search for lfte, gste and hnte, there are only a couple phrases) Days of the Week http://members.rocketlanguages.com/lessons/926 :D Numerical adverbs: (search for einmal, zweimal, einfach, zweifach) Here are some examples from page 130 of ;) Essential Grammar of German by Monika Reimann ISBN: 978-3-19-19-201575-5 Ich möchte nicht mehr Ski fahren Erstens kann ich es nicht gut und zweitens ist es teuer. Weißt du, wer mich gerade angerufen hat? Dreimal darfst du raten. :D Fractions, measurements, weights, money (same book - page 131) 1/3 ein Drittel 2 1/2 zweieinhalb (e i e i - o and on the farm we had a pig. forgive me) 1,30 m ein Meter dreißig -,30 EUR dreißig Cent 1% ein Prozent 1º ein Grad (Celsius) -5º minus fünf Grad / fünf Grad under Null If anybody finds better references or additional, I can update this document. Thank you, Jason

Wow, what an important comment.  I don't know how I managed to get this far in German without knowing about the "dreißig-neununddreißig" numbers using the eszett character issue.

Perhaps, Rocket ought to add a major category to the Forum sections called "Classic Comment Archives," so we can easily see valuable info like Jason's excellent explanation here, which I only stumbled on by accident way down here in the ancient comments.

 

 

jason☺ ‐ 1 year ago

Hi Guys,

Looks like the person that started this thread decided to delete the question and no links were included in the posts. So, anybody that reads this will have no idea what lesson you guys were talking about.

Here are the numbers (cardinal, ordinal, and numerical adverbs): http://goo.gl/Y7Nri3

8) Byron is right. Only (30-39) dreißig-neununddreißig use the eszett character and are used everywhere like that (30th, 30, 130, 1030, 31st).

Here are all the numbers written with eszett: http://german.about.com/library/anfang/blanfang08.htm
Die Zahlen 31-40

31 einunddreißig 36 sechsunddreißig
32 zweiunddreißig 37 siebenunddreißig
33 dreiunddreißig 38 achtunddreißig
34 vierunddreißig 39 neununddreißig
35 fünfunddreißig 40 vierzig

History of dreißig (dreissig-Switzerland)
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/drei%C3%9Fig

Rocket German Lessons on Numbers (I took the titles directly from the lessons, I have very little patience for correcting English mistakes.)

Cardinal Numbers:
2.6 Numbers - Part 1 http://members.rocketlanguages.com/lessons/62
2.7 Numbers - Part 2 http://members.rocketlanguages.com/lessons/63
Numbers Beginners http://members.rocketlanguages.com/lessons/918
Advanced Numbers http://members.rocketlanguages.com/lessons/919

Ordinal Numbers: (search for lfte, gste and hnte, there are only a couple phrases)
Days of the Week http://members.rocketlanguages.com/lessons/926

Numerical adverbs: (search for einmal, zweimal, einfach, zweifach)
Here are some examples from page 130 of
Essential Grammar of German by Monika Reimann ISBN: 978-3-19-19-201575-5
Ich möchte nicht mehr Ski fahren
Erstens kann ich es nicht gut und zweitens ist es teuer.

Weißt du, wer mich gerade angerufen hat?
Dreimal darfst du raten.

Fractions, measurements, weights, money (same book - page 131)
1/3 ein Drittel
2 1/2 zweieinhalb (e i e i - o and on the farm we had a pig. forgive me)
1,30 m ein Meter dreißig
-,30 EUR dreißig Cent
1% ein Prozent
1º ein Grad (Celsius)
-5º minus fünf Grad / fünf Grad under Null

If anybody finds better references or additional, I can update this document.

Thank you,
Jason

Sorry my blockquote doesn't pick up the source code links to Jason's references.

Cheers.