Cardinal and Ordinal Numerals
CardinalsOrdinals 1 — one the first 2 — two the second 3— three the third 4 — four the fourth 5 — five the fifth 6 — six the sixth 7— seven the seventh 8 — eight the eighth 9 — nine the ninth 10 — ten the tenth 11 — eleven the eleventh 12 — twelve the twelfth 13 — thirteen the thirteenth 14 — fourteen the fourteenth 15 — fifteen the fifteenth 16 — sixteen the sixteenth 17 — seventeen the seventeenth 18 — eighteen the eighteenth 19 — nineteen the nineteenth 20 — twenty the twentieth 30 — thirty the thirtieth 40 — forty the fortieth 50 — fifty the fiftieth 60 — sixty the sixtieth 70 — seventy the seventieth 80 — eighty the eightieth 90 — ninety the ninetieth 100 — a/one hundred the (one) hundredth 200 — two hundred the two hundredth 1, 000 — a/one thousand the (one) thousandth 1, 345 — a/one thousand three the (one) thousand three hundred hundred and forty-five and forty-fifth • In cardinal numerals which consist of tens (десятки) and units (единицы) the two words are hyphenated (пишутся через дефис). 56 — fifty-six, 91 — ninety-one • When cardinal numerals ending in one (like thirty-one, fifty-one) areused before a noun, they require the plural form of the noun. thirty-one students, forty-one years (Compare with Russian тридцать один студент, сорок один год, where the noun is used in the singular.) • The numerals hundred, thousand and million used in the singular are always preceded by the Indefinite article a or the numeral one. a hundred, one hundred and fifty-two When the numerals hundred, thousand or million are preceded a number other than one, they do not take the ending -s. 400 children (four hundred) 5, 900 people (five thousand nine hundred) 8, 600, 000 dollars (eight million six hundred thousand) • The cardinal numerals dozen, ten, hundred, thousand, million takethe plural ending -s before of+ a plural noun if the above numerals arenot preceded by another numeral or a pronoun. millions of stars, dozens of eggs, thousands of books, hundreds of thousands of people, etc. but: many thousand people, two hundred chairs, three dozen eggs • Cardinal numerals are used to indicate the number with nouns like page, sentence, Ex., room, chapter, volume, paragraph, apartment, tram, etc. In such cases the numeral is placed after the noun and the noun is used without an article. Read lesson 8 on page 93. However, ordinal numerals can sometimes be used here as well. Paragraph 3, or the third paragraph World War II, or the Second World War In similar cases in Russian ordinal numerals are preferable. Читайте урок восьмой на девяносто третьей странице. As regards the names of kings and queens, only ordinal numerals are here. Henry VIII – Henry the Eighth Elizabeth II – Elizabeth the Second Peter I – Peter the First Dates are written and read in the following way: 1st September, 1986 - The first of September nineteen (hundred and) eighty-six May 5, 2006 = May the fifth, twenty hundred and six or / thousand six or two thousand six In British English dates are written numerically with the day first and American English the month comes first. 10/4/2005 - 10th April, 2005 (British) 4/10/2005 - 10th April, 2005 (American) Cardinal numerals are also used to denote decades. In these cases the numeral takes the definite article and the ending -s. the 50s, the 70s, the 1980s = the fifties, the seventies, the nineteen eighties However, an apostrophe (') after the numeral may also occur here. In the early 60's of the last century platform shoes were all vogue.
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