Cardinal Numbers

To refresh how to say the numbers correctly: 

The following table shows the names of numbers. These numbers are sometimes called cardinal numbers. You can see from the numbers in this table how to form all other numbers.

Cardinal Numbers

0    zero, oh, nought, nil, love, nothing 1    one 2    two 3    three 4    four 5    five 6    six 7    seven 8    eight 9    nine 10   ten 11   eleven 12   twelve 13   thirteen 14   fourteen 15   fifteen 16   sixteen 17   seventeen 18   eighteen 19   nineteen 20   twenty 21   twenty-one 22   twenty-two 23   twenty-three 24   twenty-four 25   twenty-five

26   twenty-six 27   twenty-seven 28   twenty-eight 29   twenty-nine 30   thirty 40   forty  (no "u") 50   fifty 60   sixty 70   seventy 80   eighty 90   ninety 100   a/one hundred 101   a hundred and one 110   a hundred and ten 120   a hundred and twenty 200   two hundred 1,000   a/one thousand 1,001   a thousand and one 1,010   a thousand and ten 2,000   two thousand 10,000   ten thousand 11,000   eleven thousand 100,000   a/one hundred thousand 1,000,000   a/one million 2,000,000   two million 1,000,000,000   a/one billion

Note: In the past British speakers used "billion" to mean a million million. However, nowdays they usually use it to mean a thousand million (a milliard), like American speakers.

Expressing Numbers in English

:: If a number is in the range 21 to 99, and the second digit is not zero, we should write the number as two words separated by a hyphen:

25   twenty-five

57   fifty-seven

89   eighty-nine

:: Numbers over 100 are generally written in figures. However if you want to say them aloud or want to write them in words rather than figures you put 'and' in front of the number expressed by the last two figures. For example:

203      two hundred and three            

622      six hundred and twenty-two

:: Numbers between 1000 and 1,000,000 is usually said or written in words as:

1,803    one thousand, eight hundred and three

1,963    one thousand, nine hundred and sixty-three

2,840    two thousand, eight hundred and forty

:: Saying years. We normally say a year in two parts. In the case of years ending in "00", we say the second part in "hundred":

1058   ten fifty-eight

1706   seventeen hundred and six (or 'seventeen oh six')

1865   eighteen sixty-five

1900   nineteen hundred

There are two ways of saying years ending in "01" to "09" before 2000. For example: "1901" can be said as "nineteen oh one" or "nineteen hundred and one". The year 2000 is read "two thousand", 2006 "two thousand and six". Post-2010 dates are often said as normal (2010 would be "twenty ten").

:: Expressing millions    

1,412,605     one million four hundred and twelve thousand six hundred and five  2,760,300     two million seven hundred and sixty thousand three hundred

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