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.

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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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