Topic 1 : Reading and writing cardinal numbers
Cardinal numbers are numbers that say how many of something there are, for example: one, two, three, four, five. They are sometimes called counting numbers.
Please read the following number
One digit number
1. = one
2. = two
3. = three
4. = four
5. = five
6. = six
7. = seven
8. = eight
9. = nine
Two digit number
10. = ten
11. = eleven
12. = twelve
13. = thirteen
14. = fourteen
19. = nineteen
20. = twenty
If a number is in the range of 21 to 99, and the second digit is not zero, one typically writes the number as two words separated by a hyphen
21-99 twenty and follow by one to nine after - (hyphen) for example
21 = twenty-one /22= twenty-two /29 = twenty-nine
30-39 thirty to thirty-nine
40-49 forty to forty-nine
50-59 fifty to fifty-nine
60-69 sixty to sixty-nine
70-79 seventy to seventy-nine
80-89 eighty to- eighty-nine
90-99 ninety to ninety-nine
100 one hundred (a hundred)
Reading the numbers of hundred, we applied the same method as reading one and two digit and put “and” after hundred.
101 one hundred and one
111 one hundred and eleven
199 one hundred and ninety-nine
200 two hundred
300 three hundred
1,000 one thousand (a thousand)
1,001 one thousand and one
2,000 two thousand
1,000,000 one million (a million)
2,000,000 two million
NOTE
We pronounce 0 with Zero or o /ho
We pronounce four digits number with the number of thousands followed by the word "thousand"
1,010 one thousand and ten
3,450 three thousand four hundred and fifty.
52,560 fifty-two thousand five hundred and sixty.