Turkish numbers and counting in Turkish

Lesson outline

1.Numbers in Turkish
2.Cardinal, nominal and counting numbers
2.1.Counting in Turkish 1-100
2.2.Counting with Turkish numbers 1-100
2.3.Turkish numbers 1-1000
2.4.Combined Turkish numbers
2.5.Cardinal Numbers
2.6.One Half (Yarım)
2.7.How many, much, many, few (Kaç, çok and az)
2.8.Piece (parça and tane)
2.9.Ordinal Numbers
2.9.1.Summary:
3.Exercises
3.1.Counting with Turkish numbers from 1 - 20
3.2.Exercises on the decimal numbers in Turkish (10-100)
3.3.Exercise on writing with turkish unordered numbers 1-100

Numbers in Turkish

The Turkish numbers are indicated below. The Turkish cardinal numbers express How many? They're also known as counting numbers. Because they demonstrate quantity.

We’ll go over the cardinal numbers from zero to twenty and all the key numbers up to one thousand, then examine how ordinal numbers work in Turkish when it comes to the appropriate suffixes.

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Hatice I.

Ebru A.

Mona G.

Yağmur Ö.

EMRE FURKAN Ö.

Merve A.

Damla Deniz T.

Gul O.

Esra G.

Selen K.

Cardinal, nominal and counting numbers

Cardinal numbers are known as the counting numbers in the Turkish language. There are 10 digits in the Turkish language.

1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-0

Cardinal numbers are followed by singular nouns. (beş ağaç - five trees)

Counting in Turkish 1-100

Numbers	Turkish	English
0	sıfır	zero
1	bir	one
2	iki	two
3	üç	three
4	dört	four
5	beş	five
6	altı	six
7	yedi	seven
8	sekiz	eight
9	dokuz	nine
10	on	ten
11	on bir	eleven
12	on iki	twelve
13	on üç	thirteen
14	on dört	fourteen
15	on beş	fifteen
16	on altı	sixteen
17	on yedi	seventeen
18	on sekiz	eighteen
19	on dokuz	nineteen
20	yirmi	twenty
30	otuz	thirty
40	kırk	fourty
50	elli	fifty
60	altmış	sixty
70	yetmiş	seventy
80	seksen	eighty
90	doksan	ninety
100	yüz	hundred

Counting with Turkish numbers 1-100

In Turkish, we always say the tens digit first, then the ones digit.

Some examples: 48: kırk sekiz ( tens digit first; ones digit second. )

Numbers	Turkish	English
11	on-bir = on bir	eleven
23	yirmi-üç = yirmi üç	twenty three
34	otuz-dört = otuz dört	thirty four
46	kırk-altı = kırk altı	fourty six
59	elli-dokuz = elli dokuz	fifty nine
65	altmış-beş = altmış beş	sixty five
71	yetmiş-bir = yetmiş bir	seventy one
82	seksen-iki = seksen iki	eighty two
97	doksan-yedi = doksan yedi	ninety seven
100	yüz	hundred

Turkish numbers 1-1000

Numbers	Turkish	English
100	yüz	one hundred
200	iki yüz	two hundred
300	üç yüz	three hundred
400	dört yüz	four hundred
500	beş yüz	five hundred
600	altı yüz	six hundred
700	yedi yüz	seven hundred
800	sekiz yüz	eight hundred
900	dokuz yüz	nine hundred
1000	bin	thousand

Combined Turkish numbers

Examples written in words

888 = sekiz yüz + seksen + sekiz = sekiz yüz seksen sekiz

Numbers	Turkish	English
123	yüz yirmi üç	one hundred twenty three
265	iki yüz altmış beş	two hundred sixty five
348	üç yüz kırk sekiz	three hundred fourty eight
467	dört yüz altmış yedi	four hundred sixty seven
593	beş yüz doksan üç	five hundred ninety three
609	altı yüz dokuz	six hundred nine
790	yedi yüz doksan	seven hundred ninety
888	sekiz yüz seksen sekiz	eight hundred eighty eight
911	dokuz yüz on bir	nine hundred eleven

Cardinal Numbers

Singular, one, once (bir, kere, defa)

bir, kere, defa	one, once
bir ev	one house, a house
bir kere	one time, one occurence, once
bir defa	one time, one occurence, once

ev	house (or) the house
peynir	cheese (or) the cheese
üç çocuk	(the) three children
sekiz elma	(the) eight apples

One Half (Yarım)

There are two common words for ‘one half’

Yarım is used when no other number is mentioned in the expression.

Yarım	Half
yarım kilo	½ kilogram
beş yüz gram	500 grams
yarım kilometre	½ kilometer
beş yüz metre	500 metres
yarım saat	½ hour
otuz dakika	30 minutes

Buçuk is used with numerals.

buçuk	Half
bir buçuk saat	1½ hours
on buçuk kilometre	10½ kilometres
iki buçuk kilo	2½ kilos

How many, much, many, few (Kaç, çok and az)

Like the cardinal numbers, the ‘counting words’ kaç ‘how much?’ ‘how many?’ çok ‘much,’ ‘many,’ and az ‘few, ‘a little" are followed by singular nouns.

Kaç?	How many/much?
Kaç lira?	How many liras?
Kaç dolar?	How many Euro?
Kaç kuruş?	How many kuruş?
Kaç kaşık şeker?	How many spoons of sugar?
Kaç para?	How much money?
Kaç elma?	How many apples?

çok, az	much, many, few, little
az ev	few houses
çok ev	many houses
çok şeker	much sugar
çok az para	very little money
biraz şeker	a little sugar
çok limon	lots of lemons
gazete	newspapers
az çok	more or less

Piece (parça and tane)

These two ‘counting words’ are to be distunguished from each other:

parça ‘piece’ (one part, section, segment etc., of a whole);

tane ‘piece’ (one man, one house)

Tane may be used after the cardinal numbers.

Kaç tane?	How many?
Kaç parça ekmek?	How many pieces of bread? (for ‘slice’ use dilim.)
Kaç tane ekmek?	How many ‘breads?’ how many loaves of bread?
Kaç ev ?	How many houses?
Kaç tane ev?	How many houses?
Beş ev	five houses
Beş tane ev	five houses
Beş tane	five (of whatever is being counted)

Ordinal Numbers

Details of how to count in Turkish with cardinal and ordinal numbers.

Numeral	Cardinal	Ordinal
1st	bir	birinci
2nd	iki	ikinci
3rd	üç	üçüncü
4th	dört	dördüncü
5th	beş	beşinci
6th	altı	altıncı
7th	yedi	yedinci
8th	sekiz	sekizinci
9th	dokuz	dokuzuncu
10th	on	onuncu
20th	yirmi	yirminci
30th	otuz	otuzuncu
40th	kırk	kırkıncı
50th	elli	ellinci
60th	altmış	altmışıncı
70th	yetmiş	yetmişinci
80th	seksen	sekseninci
90th	doksan	doksanıncı
100th	yüz	yüzüncü
1000th	bin	bininci

Cardinal Numbers and Ordinal Numbers have a very important role in Turkish language.

Summary:

We learned numbers and counting in Turkish with playable examples. In order to practice, click on the exercises right below