How to count in Esperanto
Enter a number and get it written in full in Esperanto.
Language overview
Esperanto is a constructed international auxiliary language. Invented by Dr. Ludwik Łazarz Zamenhof in 1887, it counts about 100,000 very active speakers, 2 million fluent speakers and one thousand native speakers. Mostly based on European languages (French, German, Polish and Russian), it is written with a modified version of the Latin alphabet, and is very regular in its forms.
Esperanto numbering rules
- Digits from zero to nine are specific words, namely nul [0], unu [1], du [2], tri [3], kvar [4], kvin [5], ses [6], sep [7], ok [8], and naŭ [9].
- The tens are formed by adding the ten word (dek) after the matching digit, with the exception of ten where the unit is implicit: dek [10], dudek [20], tridek [30], kvardek [40], kvindek [50], sesdek [60], sepdek [70], okdek [80], and naŭdek [90].
- Numbers from twenty-one to ninety-one are constructed by saying the ten first, followed by the digit separated with a space (e.g.: dudek kvin [25], kvardek ses [46]).
- The hundreds are built exactly the same way as the tens (e.g.: cent [100], ducent [200], tricent [300]…), as well as the thousands (e.g.: mil [1,000], dumil [2,000], trimil [3,000]…).
- The Esperanto language follows the long scale system for naming big numbers: every new word greater than a million is one million times bigger than the previous term. Thus, miliardo is equivalent to 109 (one billion in the US), a trillion (1012) is said duiliono (the biliono word is no longer used due to its ambiguity).
Books
A Complete Grammar Of Esperanto The International Language
by Ivy Kellerman, editors BiblioBazaar (2009)
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L’Espéranto de poche
by Klaus Dahmann, Thomas Pusch, editors Assimil (2009)
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Fnac.com]
Parlons Espéranto, la langue internationale
by Jacques Joguin, editors L’Harmattan (2001)
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Numbers list
| 1 – unu 2 – du 3 – tri 4 – kvar 5 – kvin 6 – ses 7 – sep 8 – ok 9 – naŭ | 10 – dek 11 – dek unu 12 – dek du 13 – dek tri 14 – dek kvar 15 – dek kvin 16 – dek ses 17 – dek sep 18 – dek ok | 19 – dek naŭ 20 – dudek 30 – tridek 40 – kvardek 50 – kvindek 60 – sesdek 70 – sepdek 80 – okdek 90 – naŭdek | 100 – cent 1,000 – mil one million – miliono one billion – miliardo one trillion – unu duiliono |
Auxiliary languages
Esperanto, Ido, Solresol, and Volapük.
Other supported languages
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