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by nihzm 893 days ago
Slavic languages in general seem to have retained this case and gender dependent declination of numbers, making them rather difficult to learn. For example most languages on this list [1] have complex declension tables for the number two.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D0%B4%D0%B2%D0%B0

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But it only works for numbers 1 and 2 and goes away for bigger numbers.

Probably a remnant of the dual case of Proto Indo European