How to count in Afrikaans
Enter a number and read it spelled out in Afrikaans.
Language overview
Afrikaans is an Indo-European language derived from Dutch and classified as Low Franconian West Germanic. Mainly spoken in South Africa and Namibia, it has about 5 million speakers.
Afrikaans numbering rules
- Digits and numbers from zero to twelve are specific words, namely nul [0], een [1], twee [2], drie [3], vier [4], vyf [5], ses [6], sewe [7], ag [8], nege [9], tien [10], elf [11], and twaalf [12].
- From thirteen to nineteen, numbers are built like English teens, i.e. by adding the “-tien” suffix after the unit: dertien [13], veertien [14], vyftien [15], sestien [16], sewentien [17], agtien [18], and negentien [19].
- The tens are formed by adding the “-tig” suffix at the end of the matching digit (except for ten itself), often with a slight orthographic and phonetic change in the digit: tien [10], twintig [20], dertig [30], veertig [40], vyftig [50], sestig [60], sewentig [70], tagtig [80], and neëntig [90].
- From twenty-one to ninety-nine, the tens and units are joined with the en (and) word, but in reverse order, as the unit is said before the ten (eg. een-en-dertig [31], vyf-en-dertig [35]).
- Hundred (honderd) and thousand (duisend) are built by saying the multiplier unit right before the scale word with no spacing (eg. eenhonderd een-en-twintig [121], eenduisend tweehonderd negentien [1,219]).
- The Afrikaans language uses the long scale for big numbers where every new word greater than a million is one million times bigger than the previous term. Thus, een miljard is 109 (the US billion), and een biljoen (1012) worths a thousand US billions.
Books
- In English
- A Grammar of Afrikaans [
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], Bruce C. Donaldson, Walter de Gruyter (1993) - In French
- Parlons Afrikaans [
], Jaco Alant, L’Harmattan (2005)
Numbers list
| 1 – een 2 – twee 3 – drie 4 – vier 5 – vyf 6 – ses 7 – sewe 8 – ag 9 – nege | 10 – tien 11 – elf 12 – twaalf 13 – dertien 14 – veertien 15 – vyftien 16 – sestien 17 – sewentien 18 – agtien | 19 – negentien 20 – twintig 30 – dertig 40 – veertig 50 – vyftig 60 – sestig 70 – sewentig 80 – tagtig 90 – neëntig | 100 – eenhonderd 1,000 – eenduisend one million – een miljoen one billion – een miljard one trillion – een biljoen |
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