Cardinal and ordinal

numbers

Cardinal numbers
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9

OH / ZERO
ONE
TWO
THREE
FOUR
FIVE
SIX
SEVEN
EIGHT
NINE

10

TEN

11

ELEVEN

12

TWELVE

Teen numbers
13 THIRTEEN
14 FOURTEEN
15 FIFTEEN
16 SIXTEEN
17 SEVENTEEN
18 EIGHTEEN
19 NINETEEN

TY numbers (tens)
20 TWENTY
30 THIRTY
40 FORTY
50 FIFTY
60 SIXTY
70 SEVENTY
80 EIGHTY
90 NINETY

Remember:
My daughter is eighteen years

old and her grandmother is

eighty.

80

18

We write the tens and the units,

separated by a hyphen.
21TWENTY-ONE
32THIRTY-TWO
55FIFTY-FIVE
97NINETY-SEVEN

100
ONE HUNDRED
or

A HUNDRED

After hundred you need and

108

A hundred and eight

213

Two hundred and thirteen

390

Three hundred and ninety

666

Six hundred and sixty-six

1000
A THOUSAND
or

ONE THOUSAND

After thousand you need a comma

1004

One thousand, four

1118

One thousand, one hundred and

eighteen
3500
6894

Three thousand, five hundred

Six thousand, eight hundred and

ninety-four

1000000
A MILLION
or

ONE MILLION

5000000
FIVE MILLION
Millions IS WRONG

Listen to the numbers and repeat

Learn English numbers:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IusYGcbfCs&f
eature=related

Lets write some numbers.

68
19
23
40
91
104
222
739
1215

and
6430
12900
35827
115582
6941528

Ordinal numbers

FIRST
SECOND
THIRD
FOURTH
FIFTH
SIXTH
SEVENTH
EIGHTH
NINTH
TENTH

Ordinal numbers

ending:
1..st
2..nd
3. rd
Except:

11
12
13

eleventh
twelfth
thirteenth

21 st, 22..nd, 23..rd..

Others.. th

Ordinal numbers follow the same

rule as cardinal numbers.

15thfifteenth
20thtwentieth
21st twenty-first
22nd
twenty-second
23rd
twenty-third
24thtwenty-fourth
32nd
thirty-second
55thfifty-fifth
61st sixty-first

Ordinal numbers are used with

dates
Today is December 8 2009.
Well say: today is December the eighth two

thousand nine. or today is the eighth of

December two thousand nine.