Numbers in English
- One First
- Two Second
- Three Third
- Four Fourth
- Five Fifth
- Six Sixth
- Seven Seventh
- Eight Eighth
- Nine Ninth
- Ten Tenth
- Eleven Eleventh
- Twelve Twelfth
- Thirteen Thirteenth
- Fourteen Fourteenth
- Fifteen Fifteenth
- Sixteen Sixteenth
- Seventeen Seventeenth
- Eighteen Eighteenth
- Nineteen Nineteenth
- Twenty Twentieth
- Thirty Thirtieth
- Forty Fortieth
- Fifty Fiftieth
- Sixty Sixtieth
- Seventy Seventieth
- Eighty Eightieth
- Ninety Ninetieth
- One Hundred Hundredth
- One Thousand Thousandth
- One Million Millionth
Dates
We need the ordinal numbers in English because dates are spoken with ordinals.
April 25: April the twenty-fifth OR the twenty-fifth of April
Remember the the!
Here is a date for your diary: May 19. It’s my birthday. When is your birthday.
Notice, when we write we do not write the 19 of May or May the 19. But when we read a date we must say it with the.
And
In Spanish 25 is twenty and five. In English it is twenty-five. We use and between the hundreds and tens:
162= one hundred and sixty-two
The sound is minimal. It sounds like n: one hundred n sixty-two
Decimals
10.5 ten point five NOT ten comma five. The comma is used with thousands: 1,500.
Operations
Addition + plus
Subtraction – minus
Division / divided by
Multiplication x multiplied by; times
There are three times as many people here today
There is a third as much water as yesterday
There are two less sweets in the bowl
There are five more people
BY: 4×4 car: four-by-four
This room measures four metres by three metres.
Money
- €27.50 twenty seven euros fifty OR twenty seven fifty
- We never say 27 with 50 OR 27 point fifty
- $50.20 dollars and cents
- £30.20 pounds and pence
- For American and European money 0.20c is twenty cents
- In English money 0.20 is 20 pence or just 20p. 0.01 is a penny.
- £30.05 Here we can’t say twenty pounds five. We must say twenty pounds and 5p.