Unit Nº 39 v.0.3
Main Numbers
- 0 (zero, nought)
- 1 (one)
- 2 (two)
- 3 (three)
- 4 (four)
- 5 (five)
- 6 (six)
- 7 (seven)
- 8 (eight)
- 9 (nine)
- 10 (ten)
- 11 (eleven)
- 12 (twelve)
Teen Ending
- 13 (thirteen)
- 14 (fourteen)
- 15 (fifteen)
- 16 (sixteen)
- 17 (seventeen)
- 18 (eighteen)
- 19 (nineteen)
"ty" ending
- 20 (twenty)
- 30 (thirty)
- 40 (forty)
- 50 (fifty)
- 60 (sixty)
- 70 (seventy)
- 80 (eighty)
- 90 (ninety)
How To Write Two Figures
If a number is in the range 21 to 99, and the second digit is not zeo, one typically writes the number as two words separated:
- 21 (twenty-one)
- 25 (twenty-five)
- 32 (thirty-two)
- 58 (fifty-eight)
- 64 (sixty-four)
- 79 (seventy-nine)
- 83 (eighty-three)
- 99 (ninety-nine)
The Hundreds
In English, the hundreds are perfectly regular, except that the word hundred remains in it's singular form regardless of the number preceding it (nevertheless, one may on the other hand say "hundreds of people flew in", or the like:
- 100 (one hundred)
- 200 (two hundred)
- 900 (nine hundred)
The Thousands
So too are the thousands, with the number of thousands followed by the word "thousand:
- 1,000 (one thousand)
- 2,000 (two thousand)
- 10,000 (ten thousand)
- 11,000 (eleven thousand)
- 20,000 (twenty thousand)
- 21,000 (twenty-one thousand)
- 30,000 (thirty thousand)
- 85,000 (eighty-five thousand)
- 100,000 (1) (one hundred thousand)
- 100,000 (2) (one “lakh” in Indian English)
- 999,000 |UK| (nine hundred and ninety-nine thousand (British English)
- 999.000 |US| (nine hundred ninety-nine thousand)
The Millions
- 1,000,000 (one millon)
- 10,000,000 (ten million)
- 10,000,000 (one crore in Indian English)
