Add to ORKGThe presence of numbers and ciphers is representative for texts on economics as one of the aims of economics is to quantify different elements, such as currencies, amounts of capital or interest rates. However, this is just one way to express quantity, because there are also adjectives such as stark, fuerte (‘strong‘) or knapp, escaso (‘scarce‘) or adverbs such as kaum, apenas (‘hardly‘) or genügend, suficiente (‘enough ́). Also, nouns such as mogollón (‘lots of’) or Rekordhoch (‘record high’) play a fundamental role in the language of economics, not to mention different ways of gradation such as besonders, especialmente (‘particularly‘). Our aim in this study is to present some of the most significant differences and similarities between...