thirty-one
Forty (no "u")
fifty
sixty
seventy
eighty
ninety
a/one hundred
a/one thousand
a/one million
Numbers between 21 to 99 should be separated by a hyphen
The British use 'and' before tens and ones but the Americans usually leave the 'and' out.
89 eighty-nine
622 six hundred and twenty-two (AmE: six hundred twenty-two)
1,963 one thousand, nine hundred and sixty-three (AmE: one thousand, nine hundred sixty-three)
10,110: ten thousand one hundred and ten (UK) / ten thousand one hundred ten (US)
100,010: one hundred thousand and ten (UK) / one hundred thousand ten (US)
110,000: one hundred and ten thousand (UK) / one hundred ten thousand (US)
1,111,110: one million one hundred and eleven thousand one hundred and ten (UK) / one million one hundred
eleven thousand one hundred ten (US)
Singular or Plural?
Numbers are usually written in singular.
two hundred Euros
several thousand light years
The plural is only used with dozen, hundred,
thousand, million, billion, if they are not modified by
another number or expression (e.g. a few / several).
hundreds of Euros
thousands of light years
The Figure ‘0’
nought - in Maths (BrE) ondalık virgülden önce,
zero
0.06 = nought point oh six
- in Maths (AmE)
- in measurements of temperature (BrE and AmE) sıcaklık değerlerini söylerken,
- in count-downs (BrE and AmE)
- score in team games, e.g. football (AmE)
oh
- when each figure is said separately , figure by figure digit by digit
say each figure separately
(e.g. in phone numbers, account numbers, flight numbers, credit card number etc.) bus 507 room 107
nil
- score in team games, e.g. football (BrE ) Chelsea 2 Arsenale 0 = Chelsea two Arsenal nil
love
- in tennis and similar games derived from the French word l'oeuf (the egg) as the figure 0 is egg-shaped
40 - 0 = "forty love" şeklinde yazılır.
Saying years
1058
1706
1865
1900
2001
2015
ten fifty-eight
seventeen hundred oh six
eighteen sixty-five
nineteen hundred
two thousand (and) one
twenty fifteen
Place of the commas and dots
The comma is used to separate thousands:
The dot is used to separate decimals
1/6 One sixth ( a sixth )
1/5 One fifth
1/4 One quarter
3/4 Three quarters
(quarter, çeyrek anlamına gelir; 3 çeyrek)
1/3 One third
2/3 Two thirds
1/2 One half
1/8 One over eight
1/5 One over five
1/4 One over four
1/3 One over three
2/3 Two over three
1/2 One over two
Bu yazımdaki “over”, üzerinde anlamındadır.
Fractional numbers
½
a half 0.5
British English nought point five
2½
two and a half 2.5
two point five
¼
a quarter
British English nought point two five American English zero point two five
¾
three quarters American English also three fourths
0.25
American English zero point five
0.75 British English nought point seven five
American English zero point seven five
* Decimals (Ondalık sayılar)
Before a decimal point we say either nought or
zero
0.568 nought point five six eight
After a decimal point we say oh
0.001 nought point oh oh one
0.568 zero point five six eight
* Square cube root
102 Ten squared 103 Ten
cubed √¯5 the square root of five
1.423 one point four two three
* £1,5 one pound fift
The Four Basic Operations (4 işlem )
Bazı basit örnekler yapalım:
1 + 5 = 6 one plus five equals six
4 – 3 = 1 four minus three equals one
3*2= 6 three times two equals six
6/3=2 six divided by three equals two
Ordinal Numbers
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
st
nd
rd
th
th
th
th
th
th
th
first
second
third
fourth
fifth
sixth
seventh
eighth
ninth
tenth
thirty-first
fortieth
fiftieth
sixtieth
seventieth
eightieth
ninetieth
one hundredth
one thousandth
one millionth
Form
Spelling of Ordinal Numbers
Just add th to the cardinal number:
four - fourth
eleven - eleventh
Exceptions:
one - first
two - second
three - third
five - fifth
eight - eighth
nine - ninth
twelve - twelfth
In compound ordinal numbers, note that only the last figure is written as an ordinal number:
421st = four hundred and twenty-first
5,111th = five thousand, one hundred and eleventh
Titles
In names for kings and queens, ordinal numbers are written in Roman numbers. In spoken English, the definite
article is used before the ordinal number: