Listen to the passage carefully several times in order to familiarize with numbers and their pronunciation.
Numbers in Turkish are listed below.
To form compound numbers it is very easy.Just look at the example given
1: bir
2: iki
3: üç
4: dört
5: beş
6: altı
7: yedi
8: sekiz
9: dokuz
10: on
11: onbir
12: oniki
13: önüç
14: ondört
15: onbeş
16: onaltı
17: onyedi
18: onsekiz
19: ondokuz
20: yirmi
30: otuz
40: kırk
50: elli
60: altmış
70: yetmiş
80: seksen
90: doksan
100: yüz
200: ikiyüz
300: üçyüz
400: dörtyüz
500: beşyüz
600: altıyüz
700: yediyüz
800: sekizyüz
900: dokuzyüz
1000: bin
1.000.000: Bir milyon
1.000.000.000 Bir milyar
Examples:
21 will read Yirmi bir
32 will read Otuz iki
107 will read yüz yedi
515 will read beşyüz onbeş
1222 will read bin ikiyüz yirmi iki
and so on...
As a drill write in Turkish the following figures:
343 - 511 - 2333 - 1,000,000 - 1,250,000
GRAMMATICAL NOTES
The formation of ordinal numbers in Turkish requires the use special suffixes to be attached to the cardinal numbers.
These suffixes are the following:
- inci -ıncı -üncü -uncu
The choice of the appropriate suffix depend on the ordinal number we want to obtain and goes by the vowel harmony rule.
To better explain this concept let's have a look at te following 4 cases and examples:
- Dominant or final vowel in the figures: -ı (there are no figures ending in "a")
Examples: altı (six) >>>> altıncı (the sixth)
otuzaltı ( thirty-six) >>>> otuzaltıncı ( the thirty -sixth)
2. Dominant or final vowel in the figures: -ö -ü
Ordinal suffıx to be attached: -üncü
Examples: Dört (four) >>>>>>>> dördüncü (here it is a case of Consonant mutation)
Seksen dört (eighty-four)>> Seksendördüncü (the eighty-fourth)
3. Dominant or final vowel in the figures: -o -u
Ordinal suffix to be attached: -uncu
Examples: Dokuz (nine)>>>>>>>>>>> dokuzuncu (the nineth)
Ellidokuz (fifthy-nine) >>>>Ellidokuzuncu (The fifthy-nineth)
4. Dominant or final vowel in the figures: -i -e
Examples: Yedi (seven) >>>>>>>>>>> yedinci (the seventh)
Yirmi beş (twenty-five) >>>> Yirmibeşinci (thetwenty-fifth)
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