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Numerals

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Cardinal numbers
 From one to twelve
 From thirteen to nineteen
 Stress in on the last syllable – eg. fif’teen
 From twenty to ninety
 Stress is on the first syllable – eg. ‘fifty
 Hundred – 100
 155
 One hundred and fifty five
 Thousand – 1000
 Million – 1 000 000
 Billion – 1 000 000 000
 1 234 567 890 – one billion two hundred thirty four million five hundred sixty seven
thousand eight hundred ninety
Ordinal numbers
 First
 Second
 Third
 Cardinal number + -th
 Fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth
 For 20, 30 etc. we change –y to -ie and add –th
 Twentieth, thirtieth , fortieth...
 Hundredth, thousandth…
 If we have a complex number we add –th to the last word
 1 234 567 890 – one billion two hundred thirty four million five hundred
sixty seven thousand eight hundred ninetieth
0
 Zero
 In maths
 In phone numbers
 O /əu/
 In years
 1407 – in fourteen o seven
 In time
 In phone numbers
 Nil
 In sports
 3:0 – three nil
Years
 We divide numbers in two parts and say single numbers
 1345 - thirteen forty-five
 **0*
 0 is o
 1407 - fourteen oh seven
 First part is hundred (old-fashioned)
 1407 - fourteen hundred and seven
 **00 – hundred
 1500 – fifteen hundred
 1000 – one thousand
Years
 2000+
 2003
 twenty oh three
 two thousand and three (British)/two thousand three (American)
 2012
 twenty twelve
 two thousand and twelve (British)/two thousand twelve (American)
 -1000
 465
 Four sixty-five
 four hundred and sixty-five
Years

 AD and BC
 AD – Anno Domini –Наша эра
 BC - Before Christ – До нашей эры
 We use IN with years
 In 1999

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