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The following Italian tutorial was written by a soon to be graduate student in linguistics named Jennifer Wagner, who runs a fantastic website called Indo-European Languages - ielanguages.com. We thank her for generously allowing us to post her work here! |
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9. Italian Numbers and Ordinals
| 0 | zero | dzeh-roh |
| 1 | uno | oo-noh |
| 2 | due | doo-eh |
| 3 | tre | treh |
| 4 | quattro | kwaht-troh |
| 5 | cinque | cheen-kweh |
| 6 | sei | say |
| 7 | sette | seht-teh |
| 8 | otto | aw-toh |
| 9 | nove | naw-vay |
| 10 | dieci | dee-ay-chee |
| 11 | undici | oon-dee-chee |
| 12 | dodici | doh-dee-chee |
| 13 | tredici | treh-dee-chee |
| 14 | quattordici | kwaht-tohr-dee-chee |
| 15 | quindici | kween-dee-chee |
| 16 | sedici | seh-dee-chee |
| 17 | diciassette | dee-chahs-seht-teh |
| 18 | diciotto | dee-choht-toh |
| 19 | diciannove | dee-chahn-noh-veh |
| 20 | venti | vehn-tee |
| 21 | ventuno | vehn-too-noh |
| 22 | ventidue | vehn-tee-doo-eh |
| 30 | trenta | trehn-tah |
| 40 | quaranta | kwah-rahn-tah |
| 50 | cinquanta | cheen-kwahn-tah |
| 60 | sessanta | sehs-sahn-tah |
| 70 | settanta | seht-tahn-tah |
| 80 | ottanta | oh-tahn-tah |
| 90 | novanta | noh-vahn-tah |
| 100 | cento | chehn-toh |
Note: When you have a word that ends in a vowel, like venti, and another word that begins with a vowel, like uno; the first word loses its vowel when putting the two words together. Venti (20) and uno (1) make ventuno (21). One exception is cento; it does not lose its vowel. Cento (100) and uno (1) make centouno (101). And be aware that Italian switches the use of commas and decimals.
| first
second third fourth fifth sixth seventh eighth ninth tenth eleventh twentieth hundredth |
primo (a)
secondo (a) terzo (a) quarto (a) quinto (a) sesto (a) settimo (a) ottavo (a) nono (a) decimo (a) undicesimo (a) ventesimo (a) centesimo (a) |
From eleventh on, just drop the final vowel of the cardinal number and add -esimo. For numbers like venitrè, trentatrè, add -esimo but do not drop the final e. Ordinal numbers are adjectives and must agree with the nouns they modify; -o is the masculine ending, -a is the feminine ending.
