How to count in Turkish

Enter a number and get it written in full in Turkish.

Language overview

Turkish (türkçe) belongs to the Altaic language family. Official language in Turkey (with about 75 million speakers) and co-official in Cyprus, it is also spoken in some parts of Macedonia, Kosovo, Azerbaijan.

Turkish numbering rules

  • Digits from zero to nine are specific words, namely sıfır [0], bir [1], iki [2], üç [3], dört [4], beş [5], altı [6], yedi [7], sekiz [8] and dokuz [9].
  • The tens have specific names from ten to fifty, names based on the multiplier digit root from sixty to ninety: on [10], yirmi [20], otuz [30], kırk [40], elli [50], altmış [60], yetmiş [70], seksen [80] and doksan [90].
  • Numbers up to ninety-nine are built by spelling out the ten, then the digit (e.g.: otuz iki [32], yetmiş bir [71]). Please note that üç [3] loses its umlaut when composed within a number (e.g.: on uç [13]).
  • One hundred is written yüz, one thousand bin. Hundreds and thousands are built by telling the multiplier digit, then the hundred or thousand word (e.g.: beş yüz [500], beş bin [5,000]).
  • Tens of thousands use the same structure, with the exception that the ten and the unit are not separated by a space (eg. on altı [16], but onaltı bin [16,000]).
  • Turkish language uses the short scale for big numbers, where every new word greater than a million is 1,000 times bigger than the previous term. Thus, bir milyar is 109 (equivalent to the US billion), and bir trilyon is 1012 (equivalent to the US trillion).

Books

Turkish: a comprehensive grammarTurkish: a comprehensive grammar
by Aslı Göksel, Celia Kerslake, editors Routledge (2005)
[ Amazon.com]

Turkish GrammarTurkish Grammar
by Geoffrey Lewis, editors Oxford University Press, (2001)
[ Amazon.com]

Elementary TurkishElementary Turkish
by Lewis V. Thomas, editors Dover Publications (1986)
[ Amazon.com]

Parlons turcParlons turc
by Gönen Güzey, Dominique Halbout, editors L’Harmattan (2002)
[ Fnac.com]

Grammaire du turcGrammaire du turc
by Bernard Golstein, editors L’Harmattan (2000)
[ Fnac.com, Amazon.com]

Le turc de pocheLe turc de poche
editors Assimil (1997)
[ Fnac.com]

Numbers list

1 – bir
2 – iki
3 – üç
4 – dört
5 – beş
6 – altı
7 – yedi
8 – sekiz
9 – dokuz
10 – on
11 – on bir
12 – on iki
13 – on uç
14 – on dört
15 – on beş
16 – on altı
17 – on yedi
18 – on sekiz
19 – on dokuz
20 – yirmi
30 – otuz
40 – kırk
50 – elli
60 – altmış
70 – yetmiş
80 – seksen
90 – doksan
100 – yüz
1,000 – bir bin
one million – bir milyon
one billion – bir milyar
one trillion – bir trilyon

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