How to count in Slovene

Enter a number and read it spelled out in Slovene.

Language overview

The Slovene language (slovenščina, slovenski jezik, also known as Slovenian) is an Indo-European language that belongs to the South Slavic languages group. Official language in Slovenia, it is spoken by about 2.5 million people.

Slovene numbering rules

  • Digits and numbers from zero to ten are specific words, namely nič [0], ena [1], dve [2], tri [3], štiri [4], pet [5], šest [6], sedem [7], osem [8], devet [9], and deset [10]. The digit two has two gendered forms: dva (masculine) and dve (feminine).
  • From eleven to nineteen, numbers are suffixed by “-najst” (“-teen”): enajst [11], dvanajst [12], trinajst [13], štirinajst [14], petnajst [15], šestnajst [16], sedemnajst [17], osemnajst [18], devetnajst [19].
  • Tens are formed by adding ten (deset) to the end of the digit root, with the obvious exception of ten itself and twenty: deset [10], dvajset [20], trideset [30], štirideset [40], petdeset [50], šestdeset [60], sedemdeset [70], osemdeset [80], and devetdeset [90].
  • For numbers from twenty-one to ninety-nine, the unit comes first, then the ten, joined together by the word in (and), thus enaindvajset [21], dvaindvajset [22]…
  • Hundreds are formed the same way as the tens, i.e. by adding the suffix hundred (sto) to the digit: sto [100], dvesto [200], tristo [300]…
  • Thousands use the word tisoč, the same way English does. Million being masculine, we say dva milijona [2,000,000], but sedem milijonov [7,000,000].
  • The Slovene 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, milijarda is 109 (equivalent to the US billion) and bilijon is 1012 (equivalent to the US trillion).

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Numbers list

1 – ena
2 – dve
3 – tri
4 – štiri
5 – pet
6 – šest
7 – sedem
8 – osem
9 – devet
10 – deset
11 – enajst
12 – dvanajst
13 – trinajst
14 – štirinajst
15 – petnajst
16 – šestnajst
17 – sedemnajst
18 – osemnajst
19 – devetnajst
20 – dvajset
30 – trideset
40 – štirideset
50 – petdeset
60 – šestdeset
70 – sedemdeset
80 – osemdeset
90 – devetdeset
100 – sto
1,000 – tisoč
one million – milijon
one billion – milijarda
one trillion – bilijon

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