Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Numbers in Estonian




The Number system in Estonian is pretty simple. And if you for some reason know Finnish then you'll find the numbers really easy to remember :)

Let's start with the numbers from 0 - 10  

0 NULL
1 ÜKS
2 KAKS
3 KOLM
4 NELI
5 VIIS
6 KUUS
7 SEITSE
8 KAHEKSA
9 ÜHEKSA
10 KÜMME 

After you have learn't the basic numbers, then you should find the rest of the system pretty easy ;) 

Numbers  from 11 - 19 ? 

Just take the relevant basic number and add -TEIST to the end 

so for example you take 1 ÜKS and add + -TEIST and you'll get ÜKSTEIST (Eleven) 

ÜKS+TEIST= ÜKSTEIST

let's see the rest of them … 

11 ÜKSTEIST
12 KAKSTEIST
13 KOLMTEIST
14 NELITEIST
15 VIISTEIST
16 KUUSTEIST
17 SEITSETEIST
18 KAHEKSATEIST
19 ÜHEKSATEIST 

I told you it's easy! 

 How do we say 20, 30, 40 , 50, 60, 70, 80 and 90? 

Again it's very simple ! whew!

to say THE TENS  you take the relevant basic number and add -KÜMMEND to the end,

for example 

take KAKS add KÜMMEND and you will get KAKSKÜMMEND 

 this is the correct way to say all the tens, however you will hear a lot of people saying -KEND ending especially when they say the numbers really fast. 
~KAKSKEND~ (kakskümmend)
But I would advice you to use the proper way as this is not a correct way to speak and in formal situations it wouldn't sound that good either. 

Let's go through all the tens… 


20 KAKSKÜMMEND
30 KOLMKÜMMEND
40 NELIKÜMMEND
50 VIISKÜMMEND
60 KUUSKÜMMEND
70 SEITSEKÜMMEND
80 KAHEKSAKÜMMEND
90 ÜHEKSAKÜMMEND

How do we say all the numbers in between? 
Well .. it's really easy again!!!   

Take the TENS and add the basic number to the end. 

for example 

31 KOLMKÜMMEND ÜKS 

And make sure that you wont write it all together as a one word but as two separate words. 


Let's go throughough all the numbers from 0 - 99

0 NULL
1 ÜKS
2 KAKS
3 KOLM
4 NELI
5 VIIS
6 KUUS
7 SEITSE
8 KAHEKSA
9 ÜHEKSA
10 KÜMME 
11 ÜKSTEIST
12 KAKSTEIST
13 KOLMTEIST
14 NELITEIST
15 VIISTEIST
16 KUUSTEIST
17 SEITSETEIST
18 KAHEKSATEIST
19 ÜHEKSATEIST 
20 KAKSKÜMMEND
21 KAKSKÜMMEND ÜKS 
22 KAKSKÜMMEND KAKS
23 KAKSKÜMMEND KOLM
24 KAKSKÜMMEND NELI
25 KAKSKÜMMEND VIIS
26 KAKSKÜMMEND KUUS
27 KAKSKÜMMEND SEITSE
28 KAKSKÜMMEND KAHEKSA
29 KAKSKÜMMEND ÜHEKSA
30 KOLMKÜMMEND 
31 KOLMKÜMMEND ÜKS
32 KOLMKÜMMEND KAKS
33 KOLMKÜMMEND KOLM
34 KOLMKÜMMEND NELI
35 KOLMKÜMMEND VIIS
36 KOLMKÜMMEND KUUS
37 KOLMKÜMMEND SEITSE
38 KOLMKÜMMEND KAHEKSA
39 KOLMKÜMMEND ÜHEKSA
40 NELIKÜMMEND
41 NELIKÜMMEND ÜKS 
42 NELIKÜMMEND KAKS
43 NELIKÜMMEND KOLM
44 NELIKÜMMEND NELI
45 NELIKÜMMEND VIIS
46 NELIKÜMMEND KUUS
47 NELIKÜMMEND SEITSE
48 NELIKÜMMEND KAHEKSA
49 NELIKÜMMEND ÜHEKSA
50 VIISKÜMMEND
51 VIISKÜMMEND ÜKS
52 VIISKÜMMEND KAKS
53 VIISKÜMMEND KOLM
54 VIISKÜMMEND NELI
55 VIISKÜMMEND VIIS
56 VIISKÜMMEND KUUS
57 VIISKÜMMEND SEITSE
58 VIISKÜMMEND KAHEKSA
59 VIISKÜMMEND ÜHEKSA
60 KUUSKÜMMEND
61 KUUSKÜMMEND ÜKS
62 KUUSKÜMMEND KAKS
63 KUUSKÜMMEND KOLM
64 KUUSKÜMMEND NELI
65 KUUSKÜMMEND VIIS
66 KUUSKÜMMEND KUUS
67 KUUSKÜMMEND SEITSE
68 KUUSKÜMMEND KAHEKSA
69 KUUSKÜMMEND ÜHEKSA
70 SEITSEKÜMMEND 
71 SEITSEKÜMMEND ÜKS
72 SEITSEKÜMMEND KAKS
73 SEITSEKÜMMEND KOLM
74 SEITSEKÜMMEND NELI
75 SEITSEKÜMMEND VIIS
76 SEITSEKÜMMEND KUUS
77 SEITSEKÜMMEND SEITSE
78 SEITSEKÜMMEND KAHEKSA
79 SEITSEKÜMMEND ÜHEKSA
80 KAHEKSAKÜMMEND 
81 KAHEKSAKÜMMEND ÜKS
82 KAHEKSAKÜMMEND KAKS
83 KAHEKSAKÜMMEND KOLM
84 KAHEKSAKÜMMEND NELI
85 KAHEKSAKÜMMEND VIIS
86 KAHEKSAKÜMMEND KUUS
87 KAHEKSAKÜMMEND SEITSE
88 KAHEKSAKÜMMEND KAHEKSA
89 KAHEKSAKÜMMEND ÜHEKSA
90 ÜHEKSAKÜMMEND 
91 ÜHEKSAKÜMMEND ÜKS
92 ÜHEKSAKÜMMEND KAKS
93 ÜHEKSAKÜMMEND KOLM
94 ÜHEKSAKÜMMEND NELI
95 ÜHEKSAKÜMMEND VIIS
96 ÜHEKSAKÜMMEND KUUS
97 ÜHEKSAKÜMMEND SEITSE
98 ÜHEKSAKÜMMEND KAHEKSA
99 ÜHEKSAKÜMMEND ÜHEKSA

WHOOP WHOOP!
Now you can say numbers from 0-99 in Estonian!!!

Let's have a look at the bigger numbers: 

I wont be explaining much here as the same easy logic continues ...

100 SADA

101 SADA ÜKS 
111 SADA ÜKSTEIST
345 KOLMSADA NELIKÜMMEND VIIS ( add KOLM to  SADA and you'll get KOLMSADA )



1000 TUHAT
3456 KOLM TUHAT NELISADA VIISKÜMMEND KUUS
10 000 KÜMME TUHAT 
100 000 SADA TUHAT
10 (6) (ÜKS) MILJON
20(6) KAKS MILJONIT 

As you can see, after One Million you'll start adding the T in the end. That T is showing that the word is PLURAL.

BILLION (ÜKS) MILJARD
TRILLION (ÜKS) TRILJON

The same T rule applies to these numbers. 


THE END! 

Have fun learning! 






































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20 comments:

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  2. THANK YOU VERY MUCH! Continue this way!
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