Learn about some special rules to form Arabic numbers
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| INTRODUCTION |
| In this lesson we’re going to continue with counting from 11 to 100. |
| GRAMMAR POINT |
| Let’s just quickly review 0-10. |
| 0 sefr |
| 1 waḥed |
| waḥda if the thing you’re counting is feminine. |
| next we have: |
| 2 etneen |
| 3 talata |
| 4 arbaʿa |
| 5 ḫamsa |
| 6 seta |
| 7 sabaʿa |
| 8 tamanya |
| 9 tesaʿa |
| 10 ʿashara |
| ・ |
| Now let’s continue with 11 to 20. |
| 11 ḥedaashar |
| (slow) ḥedaashar |
| ḥedaashar |
| This word may sound very difficult when you first hear it, but in reality it is very simple. |
| Here are the next numbers. |
| 12 etnaashar |
| (slow) etnaashar |
| etnaashar |
| 13 talattaashar |
| (slow) talattaashar |
| talattaashar |
| 14 arbaʿtaashar |
| (slow) arbaʿtaashar |
| arbaʿtaashar |
| 15 ḫamastaashar |
| (slow) ḫamastaashar |
| ḫamastaashar |
| 16 settaashar |
| (slow) settaashar |
| settaashar |
| 17 sabaʿtaashar |
| (slow) sabaʿtaashar |
| sabaʿtaashar |
| 18 tamantaashar |
| (slow) tamantaashar |
| tamantaashar |
| 19 tesaʿtaashar |
| (slow) tesaʿtaashar |
| tesaʿtaashar |
| 20 ʿeshreen |
| (slow) ʿeshreen |
| ʿeshreen |
| Basically, you have to memorize 11 and 12 the way they are, because they don’t really have a rule. However, from 13 to 19, you can form the number by adding taashar to the numbers we learned in the last lesson - from 3 to 9. For example, “three” is talata, so 13 will be talattaashar. And the number “20”, ʿeshreen literally means “two tens.” |
| Let’s count the tens from ten to one hundred, so we can see the similarities. |
| 10 ʿashara |
| (slow) ʿashara |
| ʿashara |
| 20 ʿeshreen |
| (slow) ʿeshreen |
| ʿeshreen |
| 30 talateen |
| (slow) talateen |
| talateen |
| 40 ‘arbeʿeen |
| (slow)‘arbeʿeen |
| ‘arbeʿeen |
| 50 ḫamseen |
| (slow)ḫamseen |
| ḫamseen |
| 60 setteen |
| (slow) setteen |
| setteen |
| 70 sabʿeen |
| (slow) sabʿeen |
| sabʿeen |
| 80 tamaneen |
| (slow) tamaneen |
| tamaneen |
| 90 tesʿeen |
| (slow) tesʿeen |
| tesʿeen |
| Finally, we have meyya, which is “one hundred.” |
| 100 meyya |
| (slow) meyya |
| meyya |
| ・ |
| Now that we learned the tens, let’s learn counting the numbers that are in between. |
| 21 sounds like this: wahed w ʿeshreen. |
| The whole number is wahed w ʿeshreen, which is literally translated as “one and twenty”. |
| Let’s make some sentences using numbers now. |
| ・ |
| Here is the first one: |
| “I am twenty-one years old.” |
| ana ʿandi waḥed w ʿeshreen sana. |
| Let’s break it down: |
| (slow) ana ʿandi waḥed w ʿeshreen sana. |
| Once again: |
| ana ʿandi waḥed w ʿeshreen sana. |
| أنا عندي واحد و عشرين سنة |
| ana, as we’ve learned many times before, means “I”. |
| ʿandi’ is used to mean “to have.”, but grammatically, it is actually a preposition and a pronoun in Arabic. |
| (slow) ʿandi |
| ʿandi |
| The next word, waḥed, means “one” |
| (slow) waḥed. |
| waḥed. |
| The next word, w, means “and” |
| (slow) w. |
| w. |
| The next word, ʿeshreen, means “twenty” |
| (slow) ʿeshreen. |
| ʿeshreen. |
| The next word, sana, means “year” |
| (slow) sana. |
| sana. |
| Altogether, we have |
| ana ʿandi waḥed w ʿeshreen sana. |
| ・ |
| Let’s try making the Egyptian Arabic word for “fifty–three.” “Fifty” is ḫamseen and “three” is talata. Putting them together, we have talata w ḫamseen or “fifty-three.” |
| Remember that w means “and”. |
| Let’s break it down: |
| (slow) talata w ḫamseen |
| And once more: |
| talata w ḫamseen. |
| تلاتة و خمسين |
| ・ |
| Let’s use talata w ḫamseen to say “I have fifty-three pounds”: |
| maʿaaya talata w ḫamseen geneeh |
| Let’s break that down: |
| (slow) maʿaaya talata w ḫamseen geneeh. |
| And at natural speed: |
| maʿaaya talata w ḫamseen geneeh |
| معايا تلاتة و خمسين جنيه |
| . |
| We’ve already learned that “a hundred” in Egyptian Arabic is meyya. Let’s see the hundreds from 100 to 1000: |
| 100 meyya |
| (slow) meyya |
| meyya |
| 200 meteen |
| (slow) meteen |
| meteen |
| 300 toltomeyya |
| (slow) toltomeyya |
| toltomeyya |
| 400 robʿomeyya |
| (slow) robʿomeyya |
| robʿomeyya |
| 500 ḫomsomeyya |
| (slow) ḫomsomeyya |
| ḫomsomeyya |
| 600 sottomeyya |
| (slow) sottomeyya |
| sottomeyya |
| 700 sobʿomeyya |
| (slow) sobʿomeyya |
| sobʿomeyya |
| 800 tomnomeyya |
| (slow) tomnomeyya |
| tomnomeyya |
| 900 tosʿomeyya |
| (slow) tosʿomeyya |
| tosʿomeyya |
| 1000 alf |
| (slow) alf |
| alf |
| Now let’s see some compound numbers together: |
| 360 is toltomeyya w setteen. |
| (slow) toltomeyya w setteen. |
| toltomeyya w setteen. |
| تلتمية و ستين |
| As we said, toltomeyya is “300”, w is “and” and setteen is “60”. |
| So “300” is tolto meyya, “400” is robʿo meyya and so on. |
| Note how all the vowels in the numbers before meyya turn into “o” |
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