"Mereka pesan sepuluh ayam goreng."

Translation: They order ten fried chickens.

[uke_silver]

Because sometimes nine fried chickens just isn't enough...

[garpike]

Does this mean literally ten chickens, or ten portions of fried chicken? Or either?

[1CN5ijzC]

the most possible in this case is ten pieces i guess, but of course that also depends on the context

[TheOdThing]

Feels like I'm about to do math

[DestroyTheChild]

The guy in math problems be like

[HiMeCriss]

Now I realise. Pesan sounds like pedir in Portuguese. Eu peço = I order :)

[RaphaelLC22]

Yea some words in indonesian look like portuguese! Another one is "sepatu" (shoe) in portuguese "sapato"

[SpaceJocke]

I was wrong for saying ordered, instead of order. How can i tell context so i dont keep making silly errors like this? Both would seem to be acceptable answers.

[Lydia406879]

The audio sounds like 'sepulu hayam', does the h-sound carry over onto the next word if the next word begins with a vowel, or is this just the computer-generated audio being weird?

[duolingotfek]

It's the computer-generated audio mistake. The -h sound should not carry over onto the next word.

[BOYMUH]

Mereka memesan sepuluh ayam goreng.

[LearnEmAll98]

Why does sepuluh go first? Since adjectives and determiners go after nouns, I would have assumed counters did the same.