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Plattdüütsch Numbers

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Note: This table uses a Low German orthography that is more orientated at the language's features rules than the orthography of Sass does.

English Low German Dutch German
one een een eins
two twee twee zwei
three dree dree drei
four veer vier vier
five fiev vijf fünf
six söss zes sechs
seven söven zeven sieben
eigth acht acht acht
nine negen negen neun
ten tein tien zehn
eleven ölven elf elf
twelve twölv twaalf zwölf
thirteen1 dörtein1 dertien1 dreizehn
fourteen veertein veertien vierzehn
fifteen1 fofftein1 vijftien fünfzehn
sixteen sösstein zestien sechszehn
seventeen söventein zeventien siebzehn
eighteen achttein achttien achtzehn
nineteen negentein negentien neunzehn
twenty twintig twintig zwanzig
twenty-one eenuntwintig eenentwintig einundzwanzig

Annotations:
1 One sees that in English, Low German and partly in Dutch the first number in "thirteen" and "fifteen" changes, the r changes places due to r-metathesis in "thirteen" and the vowel in "fifteen" becomes short.
Furthermore German has evolved quite differently through the second sound shift, so its forms have become quite distinct to the other varieties shown here which all have together that they weren't affected by that sound shift.

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