Counting in English

How to count in English, a West Germanic language spoken in the UK, Ireland, the USA, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and many other countries.

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Numeral	Cardinal	Ordinal
0	zero, nought
1	one	first (1st)
2	two	second (2nd)
3	three	third (3rd)
4	four	fourth (4th)
5	five	fifth (5th)
6	six	sixth (6th)
7	seven	seventh (7th)
8	eight	eighth (8th)
9	nine	ninth (9th)
10	ten	tenth (10th)
11	eleven	eleventh
12	twelve	twelfth
13	thirteen	thirteenth
14	fourteen	fourteenth
15	fifteen	fifteenth
16	sixteen	sixteenth
17	seveten	seventeenth
18	eighteen	eighteenth
19	nineteen	nineteenth
20	twenty	twentieth
21	twenty-one	twenty-first
22	twenty-two	twenty-second
23	twenty-three	twenty-third
24	twenty-four	twenty-fouth
25	twenty-five	twenty-fifth
26	twenty-six	twenty-sixth
27	twenty-seven	twenty-seventh
28	twenty-eight	twenty-eighth
29	twenty-nine	twenty-ninth
30	thirty	thirieth
40	forty	fortieth
50	fifty	fiftieth
60	sixty	sixtieth
70	seventy	seventieth
80	eighty	eightieth
90	ninety	ninetieth
100	one hundred	one hundredth
200	two hundred	two hundredth
300	three hundred	three hundredth
1,000	one thousand	one thousandth
10,000	ten thousand	ten thousandth
100,000	one hundred thousand	one hundred thousandth
1 million	one million	one millionth
1 billion	one billion	one billionth
1 trillion	one trillion	one trillionth

Hear some English numbers

Information about counting in English

https://www.languagesandnumbers.com/how-to-count-in-english/en/eng/
https://www.englishclub.com/kids/numbers-chart.htm
https://linguapress.com/grammar/numbers.htm

Numbers in Germanic languages

Afrikaans, Alsatian, Bavarian, Cimbrian, Danish, Dutch, Elfdalian, English, Faroese, Frisian (East - Saterland), Frisian (North - Mooring), Frisan (North - Sylt), Frisian (West), German, Gothic, Gottscheerish, Gronings, Hunsrik, Icelandic, Limburgish, Low German, Luxembourgish, Mòcheno, Norn, Norwegian, Old English, Old Norse, Pennsylvania German / Dutch, Proto-Germanic, Scots, Shetlandic, Swabian, Swedish, Swiss German, Värmlandic, West Flemish, Wymysorys, Yiddish, Yola, Zeelandic

Numbers in other languages

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