Numbers in english: from 0 to 100 and beyond

The numbers in English: from the little to the great!

Hi everyone! Today we immerse ourselves in the world of numbers in English. Do not worry ate vi, it is not so complies cat or as it seems. Indeed, you will discover that there so no of the very clear logic that will help you understand and use them at best.

Let's start with the bases, the numbers we use every day.

The numbers from 0 to 20: the foundations

These so no numbers that must be learned by heart, a little as alfa be to. These are the foundations on which we will build everything else.

A little trick: Not ate The numbers from 13 to 19? They all end up in -teen, which is the root of the number thirteen which derives from Three and Teen. This will help you remember that it is r if erise between 13 and 19 years, the so -called "adolescent age" (teenager).

The dozens and numbers up to 100

Once the numbers 1 to 9 happens, the dozens become much simpler. They have a termination that repeats itself: -ty.

Time, per formare i numeri intermedi (tipo 21, 35, 99), basta unire la decina con il numero unitario. Mettiamo un trattino (-) between the two words.

• 21 is said twenty-one
• 54 It is said fifty-four
• 99 It is said ninety-nine

Example: My grandmother is eighty-five. (My grandmother is eighty -five years old).

Large numbers: hundreds, thousands and over

Time saliamo di livello! La logica rimane la stessa, ma aggiungiamo nuove parole chiave:

• 100: one hundred (or, colloquially, a hundred)
• 1.000: one thousand (or a thousand)
• 1.000.000: one million (or a million)
• 1.000.000.000: one billion (or a billion)
• 1.000.000.000.000: one trillion (or a trillion)

A d if fundamental ference with the Italian: the comma and the point

In italian, usiamo il punto per separare le migliaia e la virgola per i decimali. In inglese è l’esatto contrario!

• Italian: 1,000,000.50 (one million and fifty cents)
• English: 1,000,000.50 (one million and fifty cents)

How do large numbers are made?

We proceed for "blocks" of three c if re. Each block has its own key word (hundred, thousand, million, etc.).

We take 1,234,567.

1. Read the first block: 1 it is said one million.
2. Read the second block: 234 it is said two hundred and thirty-four thousand.
3. Read the last block: 567 it is said five hundred and sixty-seven.

By combining everything, it becomes: one million, two hundred and thirty-four thousand, five hundred and sixty-seven.

Example:

The new stadium costs five million, eight hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
The new stadium costs five million and eight hundred fifty thousand dollars.

Ordinal numbers: first, second, third ...

Cardinal numbers (one, two, three) then can or a quantity. Ordinal numbers (first, second, third) then can or a position in a series.

Here are the most common:

• 1st: first
• 2nd: second
• 3rd: third
• 4th: fourth
• 5th: fifth
• ...
• 20 °: twentieth
• 21st: twenty-first

A trick: Most ordinal numbers end in -th, except the first three. After 20, the rule applies so to the last c if ra. twenty-first (not twenty-oneth).

Examples with numbers in English

AS so Lukely! Here are 30 examples of phrases with small, large and ordinal numbers.

Phrases with small numbers (0-100)

1. The have two cats and one dog.
2. She bought five books for ten dollars each.
3. The bus leaves in eight minutes.
4. There are seven days in a week.
5. He is thirty-five years old.
6. The recipe requires twenty grams of sugar.
7. The have ninety-nine problems.
8. The team won one game and lost three.
9. My phone number is three-four-five-eight-six-two.
10. The train arrived at seven-forty a.m.

Phrases with large numbers

1. The population of the city is over one million.
2. The company made a profit of two hundred thousand euros.
3. The project will cost five hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
4. The distance to the moon is approximately three hundred and eighty-four thousand kilometers.
5. There are one thousand meters in one kilometer.
6. The new stadium can hold seventy-five thousand people.
7. The government's budget is one billion dollars.
8. The universe is said to be thirteen billion years old.
9. He inherited ten million pounds.
10. Fifty thousand people attended the concert.

Phrases with ordinal numbers

1. This is my first time in London.
2. Our apartment is on the third floor.
3. She finished second in the race.
4. The fourth of July is a national holiday in the U.S.
5. This is the twentieth chapter of the book.
6. Today is my ninety-first birthday.
7. The marathon runner came in one hundred and first place.
8. I'm sending you the third draft of the report.
9. This is our second wedding anniversary.
10. He was the twenty-fifth president.

I hope this lesson has been useful to make some clarity in the world of numbers in English.