How to count in Latvian

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Language overview

Latvian language (latviešu valoda) belongs to the Baltic group of the Indo-European family. Official language of Latvia, it counts about 1.5 million speakers.

Latvian numbering rules

Digits from zero to nine have two forms: a masculine form and a feminine one. Masculine numbers are: nulle [0], viens [1], divi [2], trīs [3], četri [4], pieci [5], seši [6], septiņi [7], astoņi [8], and deviņi [9]. As for feminine numbers, they are: nulle [0], viena [1], divas [2], trīs [3], četras [4], piecas [5], sešas [6], septiņas [7], astoņas [8], and deviņas [9].
From ten (which is desmit) up, there is only one gender and the following noun is always set to genitive. The noun remains subject to declension, except for numbers between ten and nineteen, and simple tens (10, 20, 30…).
From eleven to nineteen, cardinal numbers end with -padsmit, meaning on ten, and begin with the root of the digit: vienpadsmit [11], divpadsmit [12], trīspadsmit [13], četrpadsmit [14], piecpadsmit [15], sešpadsmit [16], septiņpadsmit [17], astoņpadsmit [18], and deviņpadsmit [19].
Tens end with -desmit (ten) preceded by the ten digit, except for ten itself: desmit [10], divdesmit [20], trīsdesmit [30], četrdesmit [40], piecdesmit [50], sešdesmit [60], septiņdesmit [70], astoņdesmit [80], and deviņdesmit [90].
Hundreds are formed by putting the word for hundred (simt) after the multiplier unit root with no space, with the exception of one hundred itself: simts [100] (note the -s at the end), divsimt [200], trīssimt [300], četrsimt [400], piecsimt [500]…
Thousands are formed the same way, by attaching the word for thousand (tūkstoš, or tūkstoši, in nominative plural) after the multiplier unit, with the exception of one thousand itself: tūkstoš [1,000], divtūkstoši [2,000], trīstūkstoši [3,000], četrtūkstoši [4,000], piectūkstoši [5,000]…
Compound numbers are formed by putting the ten before the unit (e.g.: trīsdesmit divi [32], četrdesmit trīs [43], piecdesmit četri [54]), the hundred before the ten and the unit (e.g.: divsimt trīsdesmit pieci [235], trīssimt viens [301]), the thousand before the hundred, the ten and the unit (e.g.: tūkstoš deviņsimt septiņdesmit viens [1,971], divtūkstoši četri [2,004]).
Latvian uses the short scale system as English to create big numbers: each name of number bigger than one million is one thousand times bigger than the previous one. Thus, we have miljons (one million, 10⁶), miljards (one billion, 10⁹), triljons (one trillion, 10¹²), kvadriljons (one quadrillion, 10¹⁵)…
The scale words from thousand up have to be set in genitive when following a number, as any other noun (e.g.: desmit tūkstošu [10,000], trīs miljonu [3 million], septiņi miljardu [7 billions]).

Colloquial Latvian: The Complete Course for Beginners
by Dace Prauli, Christopher Moseley, editors Routledge (2010)
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Latvian-English/English-Latvian Dictionary & Phrasebook
by Amanda Zaeska Jatniece, editors Hippocrene Books (2004)
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Le letton de poche
by Bernard Christophe, editors Assimil (2007)
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Parlons letton
by Justyna Petit, Daniel Petit, editors L’Harmattan (2007)
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Numbers list

1 – viens
2 – divi
3 – trīs
4 – četri
5 – pieci
6 – seši
7 – septiņi
8 – astoņi
9 – deviņi

10 – desmit
11 – vienpadsmit
12 – divpadsmit
13 – trīspadsmit
14 – četrpadsmit
15 – piecpadsmit
16 – sešpadsmit
17 – septiņpadsmit
18 – astoņpadsmit

19 – deviņpadsmit
20 – divdesmit
30 – trīsdesmit
40 – četrdesmit
50 – piecdesmit
60 – sešdesmit
70 – septiņdesmit
80 – astoņdesmit
90 – deviņdesmit

100 – simts
1,000 – tūkstoš
one million – miljons
one billion – miljards
one trillion – triljons

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