How to count in Veps

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

Language overview

The Veps language (vepsän), also known as Vepsian, belongs to the Uralic family, in the Finnic group. Mainly spoken by the Vepsians in the Russian Republic of Karelia (where it has the official status of minority language), but also in Vologda Oblast and in Ingria, it counts about 5,700 speakers.
Due to lack of data, we can only count accurately up to 100 in Veps. Please contact us if you can help us counting up from that limit.

Veps numbering rules

  • Numbers from one to ten are specific words: üks’ [1], kaks’ [2], koume [3], nelli [4], viž [5], kuz’ [6], seiččeme [7], kahca [8], ühesa [9], and kümne [10].
  • From eleven to nineteen, the numbers are formed from the matching digits, adding the -toštküme suffix at the end, which means from the second (ten): yks’toštküme [11], kaks’toštküme [12], koumetoštküme [13], kuz’toštküme [14], vižtoštküme [15], kuz’toštküme [16], seiččemetoštküme [17], kahesatoštküme [18], and ühesatoštküme [19].
  • The tens are formed by adding the -küme suffix (partitive case of kümne, ten) at the end of the matching multiplier digit, with the obvious exception of ten: kümne [10], kaks’küme [20], kuumeküme [30], nellküme [40], vižküme [50], kuzküme [60], seiččemeküme [70], kahesaküme [80], and ühesaküme [90].
  • Compound numbers from twenty-one to ninety-nine are formed by saying the ten, then the digit separated with a space (e.g.: kaks’küme üks’ [21], vižküme nelli [54]).
  • One hundred is sada, and one thousand, tuha.

Numbers list

1 – üks’
2 – kaks’
3 – koume
4 – nelli
5 – viž
6 – kuz’
7 – seiččeme
8 – kahca
9 – ühesa
10 – kümne
11 – yks’toštküme
12 – kaks’toštküme
13 – koumetoštküme
14 – kuz’toštküme
15 – vižtoštküme
16 – kuz’toštküme
17 – seiččemetoštküme
18 – kahesatoštküme
19 – ühesatoštküme
20 – kaks’küme
30 – kuumeküme
40 – nellküme
50 – vižküme
60 – kuzküme
70 – seiččemeküme
80 – kahesaküme
90 – ühesaküme
100 – sada
1,000 – tuha

Finno-Ugrian languages

Estonian, Finnish, Ingrian, Karelian, Livonian, Veps, and Votic.

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