Number
s
CARDINAL
1-90 100-1100
0 Zero/Nought/Oh/Nil
100 One hundred
1 One 11 Eleven
101 One hundred and one
2 Two 12 Twelve
102 One hundred and two
3 Three 13 Thirteen
….
4 Four 14 Fourteen
200 two hundred
5 Five 15 Fifteen
300 three
6 Six 16 Sixteen
400 four
7 Seven 17 Seventeen
500 five
8 Eight 18 Eighteen
600 six
9 Nine 19 Nineteen
700 seven
10 Ten 20 Twenty
800 eight
900 nine
21 Twenty-one 30 Thirty
22 Twenty-two 40 Forty
1,000 a/one thousand
…. 50 Fifty
1,001 a/one thousand and one (UK)
44 Forty four 60 Sixty
a/one thousand one (US)
… 70 Seventy
1100 one thousand and hundred (UK)
80 Eighty
Eleven hundred (US)
90 Ninety
1,000,000 One million
1,000,000,000,000 One billion
ORDINAL DECIMALS
1 First 1.1 one point one
2 Second 0.1 nought/zero/oh point one
3 Third 3.02 three point nought/zero/oh two
4 Fourth
5 Fifth
6 Sixth
7 Seventh 0 = oh
8 Eight
- after a decimal point (9.02)
9 Ninth
10 Tenth - in bus or room numbers (Room
… 101)
20 Twentieth - in phone numbers
30 Thirtieth - in years (1906)
….
0 = nought
100 Hundredth
101 One hundred and first - before the decimal point
1000 Thousandth (0.06)
0 = zero
NOTE - in temperature
*Use the definite article before NOTE
-
all ordinal numbers ( The first, The twentieth, etc.) * for
US number
use comma 0
to separate the digits of numbers over 999 (1, 000)
use point to indicate a decimal number or separate euros from cents (1.50)
Ex. Read these numbers:
13,325 309 569,009 1006 55,025 999,345 5,895 8,560 225 86 3,980 15 58 409 25,000