Friday, August 3, 2007

Tanul Neo-Patwa di Toki po Sempela Din, Calpela Din

Nume

Sunya

Zero

Wan

One

Do

Two

San

Three

Cal

Four

Nam

Five

Lyu

Six

Sem

Seven

Pal

Eight

Nin

Nine

Deka

Ten

Deka-Wan, Deka-Do, Deka-San...

Eleven, Twelve, Thirteen...

Do-Deka, San-Deka...

Twenty, Thirty...

Do-Deka Nam

Twenty Five

Heka, Do-Heka...

One Hundred, Two Hundred...

Kilo, Do-Kilo...

One Thousand, Two Thousand...

Milyon, Do-Milyon...

One Million, Two Million...

Desi

One-Tenth

Senti

One-Hundredth

Mili

One-Thousandth


Well, here we are on day four already. Numbers are very useful, but also not a very interesting thing to learn. At least that's always been my experience. Some other number words are the suffix -pela, which shows you are counting something (e.g. calpela balu, or in english, four bears) and the prefix nume- for the ordinals (e.g. nume-wan for first). While writing this I noticed that I have been titling my posts wrong. Calpela din is four days, but Nume-cal di din, fourth day, would probably make more sense. Oh well.

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