"One hundred and one dogs drink two hundred and four bottles of wine."
Translation:Một trăm lẻ một con chó uống hai trăm lẻ bốn chai rượu.
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The word 'lẻ' represents the zero in the middle of the number. When I catch a taxi to my house in Hà Nội, for instance, I ask for street number 'hai lẻ một' (201).
I like how people find the Vietnamese language more weird than 101 dogs drinking 204 bottles of wine :)
It's just an example phrase :) „In a language, if I want to say nonsense, I should have the way to“ or something like that (from an author of one of famous conlangs).
The poodle across the alley from me does seem to have a drinking problem...
However, when referring to Wednesday, always use Tư instead of Bốn although both mean number 4
It is regional and personal preference. Both mean exactly the same when you count number.
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In the northern dialect they will use tư in place of bốn for 14 24 34 etc and everywhere tư is used for fourth and instances like that or for days months and years though sometimes in the south theyll even use bốn for that but use whatever you want
Why is it wrong to use a classifier here? I thought when using nimbers, one has to use a classifier like cái.
excuse my laziness, I'm just going to share links to answers I have given to people who asked similar questions.
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Nope! That's definitely wrong! You can say ''một trăm lẻ một'' or ''một trăm linh một''! Either is fine!
