{"id":1796,"date":"2011-11-19T02:08:34","date_gmt":"2011-11-19T02:08:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/esperanto\/?p=1796"},"modified":"2011-11-30T13:55:29","modified_gmt":"2011-11-30T13:55:29","slug":"how-to-count-in-esperanto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/esperanto\/how-to-count-in-esperanto\/","title":{"rendered":"How to count in Esperanto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, want to impress your friends by being about to count in the most widely spread planned language? Let&#8217;s start by counting to 10&#8230; I&#8217;ll even throw in some memory hints for free! And yes, I&#8217;m a software developer, so I&#8217;ll start counting at zero. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<h3>Numbers 0-10<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>0 &#8211; nul (sounds like null)<\/li>\n<li>1 &#8211; unu (sounds like card game <em>Uno<\/em>)<\/li>\n<li>2 &#8211; du (<em>do<\/em> you want to learn the second number?)<\/li>\n<li>3 &#8211; tri (sounds like <em>three<\/em>)<\/li>\n<li>4 &#8211; kvar (almost like <em>four<\/em>)<\/li>\n<li>5 &#8211; kvin<\/li>\n<li>6 &#8211; ses (almost like <em>six<\/em>)<\/li>\n<li>7 &#8211; sep<\/li>\n<li>8 &#8211; ok<\/li>\n<li>9 &#8211; na\u016d (learn this number <em>now<\/em>!)<\/li>\n<li>10 &#8211; dek (highest number in a <em>deck<\/em> of cards)<\/li>\n<p>Ok, that was just as easy as learning any other language, but here is where Esperanto&#8217;s logical nature really helps. For fun, I&#8217;ll teach you the ordinal numbers. Let&#8217;s compare English with Esperanto here:<\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<th>English<br \/>cardinal<\/th>\n<th>English<br \/>ordinal<\/th>\n<th>Esperanto<br \/>cardinal<\/th>\n<th>Esperanto<br \/>ordinal<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>one<\/td>\n<td>first<\/td>\n<td>unu<\/td>\n<td>unua<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>two<\/td>\n<td>second<\/td>\n<td>du<\/td>\n<td>dua<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>three<\/td>\n<td>third<\/td>\n<td>tri<\/td>\n<td>tria<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>four<\/td>\n<td>fourth<\/td>\n<td>kvar<\/td>\n<td>kvara<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>five<\/td>\n<td>fifth<\/td>\n<td>kvin<\/td>\n<td>kvina<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>six<\/td>\n<td>sixth<\/td>\n<td>ses<\/td>\n<td>sesa<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>seven<\/td>\n<td>seventh<\/td>\n<td>sep<\/td>\n<td>sepa<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>eight<\/td>\n<td>eighth<\/td>\n<td>ok<\/td>\n<td>oka<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>nine<\/td>\n<td>ninth<\/td>\n<td>na\u016d<\/td>\n<td>na\u016da<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>ten<\/td>\n<td>tenth<\/td>\n<td>dek<\/td>\n<td>deka<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<h2>Numbers 11-1.000.000<\/h2>\n<p>The numbers stay logical. Check out the following examples:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>11 &#8211; dek unu<\/li>\n<li>12 &#8211; dek du<\/li>\n<li>34 &#8211; tridek kvar<\/li>\n<li>93 &#8211; na\u016ddek tri<\/li>\n<li>100 &#8211; cent<\/li>\n<li>123 &#8211; cent dudek tri<\/li>\n<li>678 &#8211; sescent sepdek ok<\/li>\n<li>1.000 &#8211; mil<\/li>\n<li>1.000.000 &#8211; miliono<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Also note that as opposed to English, the thousands dividers are typically separated by a dot, whereas the decimal is a comma. For example, you might see, &#8220;Tio kostas 1.299,99 \u20ac.&#8221; [That costs \u20ac1,299.99.]<\/p>\n<h2>Saying years<\/h2>\n<p>If you want to say, &#8220;The first Universal Congress of Esperanto happened in 1905.&#8221; you would say, &#8220;La unua Universala Kongreso okazis en mil na\u016dcent kvin.&#8221; Literally in English that would be &#8220;thousand nine-hundred five&#8221;. Note however, that in years starting with 2000, the same order as English applies, so 2011 is &#8220;du mil dek unu&#8221;.<\/p>\n<h2>Further study for advanced students<\/h2>\n<p>Believe it or not, numbers above a billion can get tricky. When you&#8217;re ready for an advanced lesson, feel free to check out <a href=\"http:\/\/eo.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vortoj_por_grandegaj_nombroj\">Vortoj por grandegaj nombroj<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, want to impress your friends by being about to count in the most widely spread planned language? Let&#8217;s start by counting to 10&#8230; I&#8217;ll even throw in some memory hints for free! And yes, I&#8217;m a software developer, so I&#8217;ll start counting at zero. \ud83d\ude42 Numbers 0-10 0 &#8211; nul (sounds like null) 1&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/esperanto\/how-to-count-in-esperanto\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1796","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/esperanto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/esperanto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/esperanto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/esperanto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/esperanto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1796"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/esperanto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1910,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/esperanto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1796\/revisions\/1910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/esperanto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/esperanto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/esperanto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}