How to count in Sindarin

Enter a number and read it spelled out in Sindarin.

Language overview

Sindarin (Edhellen, edhellen in Tengwar script) is one of the fictional languages spoken by the Elves, in the Arda world of J. R. R. Tolkien (of which The Lord of the Rings is one of the most renown work). It was the language of the Sindar, those Teleri which had been left behind on the Great Journey of the Elves, and is written in Latin alphabet, in Tengwar script or in Cirth script. Mainly influenced by Finnish, in grammar, phonology and vocabulary, it is also influenced to some extend by Latin, Greek, German and Spanish.
Due to lack of data, we can only count accurately up to 1,000 in Sindarin. Please contact us if you can help us counting up from that limit.

Sindarin numbering rules

  • Digits from one to nine and numbers from ten to twelve are specific words, namely mîn (mîn) [1], tâd (tâd) [2], nêl (nêl) [3], canad (canad) [4], leben (leben) [5], eneg (eneg) [6], odog (odog) [7], tolodh (tolodh) [8], neder (neder) [9], pae (pae) [10], minig (minig) [11] and uiug (uiug) [12]. As the elves originally used the duodecimal number system (base 12), eleven and twelve are still irregular.
  • The tens are formed by adding a form of the ten word (phae, phae) after the matching digit root (or first syllable), with the exception of ten: pae (pae) [10], taphae (taphae) [20], nelphae (nelphae) [30], canaphae (canaphae) [40], lephae (lephae) [50], enephae (enephae) [60], odophae (odophae) [70], tolophae (tolophae) [80] and nederphae (nederphae) [90].
  • Numbers from thirty to ninety-nine are built by saying the ten first, then the unit linked with -a- (-a-) or with -ar- (-ar-) before a vowel for teens only (e.g.: pae-ar-eneg (pae-ar-eneg) [16], pae-ar-odog (pae-ar-odog) [17], taphae-a-leben (taphae-a-leben) [25], canaphae-a-eneg (canaphae-a-eneg) [46]).
  • The hundreds are built exactly the same way as the tens, i.e. by adding the hundred word (haran, haran) after the matching digit root, except for one hundred itself: haran (haran) [100], tacharan (tacharan) [200], nelcharan (nelcharan) [300], canacharan (canacharan) [400], lefaran (lefaran) [500], enecharan (enecharan) [600], odocharan (odocharan) [700], tolocharan (tolocharan) [800] and nedercharan (nedercharan) [900].
  • The word for thousand is (meneg).

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Numbers list

1 – mîn (mîn)
2 – tâd (tâd)
3 – nêl (nêl)
4 – canad (canad)
5 – leben (leben)
6 – eneg (eneg)
7 – odog (odog)
8 – tolodh (tolodh)
9 – neder (neder)
10 – pae (pae)
11 – minig (minig)
12 – uiug (uiug)
13 – pae-a-nêl (pae-a-nêl)
14 – pae-a-canad (pae-a-canad)
15 – pae-a-leben (pae-a-leben)
16 – pae-ar-eneg (pae-ar-eneg)
17 – pae-ar-odog (pae-ar-odog)
18 – pae-a-tolodh (pae-a-tolodh)
19 – pae-a-neder (pae-a-neder)
20 – taphae (taphae)
30 – nelphae (nelphae)
40 – canaphae (canaphae)
50 – lephae (lephae)
60 – enephae (enephae)
70 – odophae (odophae)
80 – tolophae (tolophae)
90 – nederphae (nederphae)
100 – haran (haran)
1,000 – meneg (meneg)

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