June 23, 2011

Cardinal Numbers

Hello everybody!


Well, I think you already know quite a lot about numbers in English, but today I am going to post about them.
There is a list with the numbers from 0 to 1,000,000,000 below.
There are some rules for writing numbers in words:
1. You must put a hyphen between the tens and units --> ninety-two.
2. When you write a number between the hundreds and the tens, you have to add an "and" between them --> Two hundred and eleven.



0 - zero
1- one
2 - two
3 - three
4 - four
5 - five
6 - six
7 - seven
8 - eight
9 - nine
10 - ten
11 - eleven
12 - twelve
13 - thirteen
14 - fourteen
15 - fifteen
16 - sixteen
17 - seventeen
18 - eighteen
19 - nineteen
20 - twenty
21 - twenty-one
22 - twenty-two
23 - twenty-three
24 - twenty-four
25 - twenty-five
26 - twenty-six
27 - twenty-seven
28 - twenty-eight
29 - twenty-nine
30 - thirty
40 - forty
50 - fifty
60 - sixty
70 - seventy
80 - eighty
90 - ninety
100 - a hundred/ one hundred
101 - one hundred one
111 - one hundred and eleven
1,000 - one thousand
1,000,000 - one million
1,000,000,000 - one billion

VERY IMPORTANT: In the USA, "bilion" means a number with 9 zeros: 1,000,000,000. But in England, we don't say "billion", we say "thousand million" or "milliard". "Billion", in England, means "trillion".

I'll post about ordinal numbers on the next post.

See you!

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