Lesson n.8: Cardinal and ordinal numbers- Ordinal numeral suffixes

Listen to the passage carefully several times in order to familiarize with numbers and their pronunciation.

Numbers in Turkish are listed below.
To form compound numbers it is very easy.Just look at the example given

1:  bir                              
2:  iki                    
3:  üç
4:  dört
5:  beş
6:  altı
7:  yedi
8:  sekiz
9:  dokuz
10: on
11: onbir
12: oniki
13: önüç
14: ondört
15: onbeş
16: onaltı
17: onyedi
18: onsekiz
19: ondokuz
20: yirmi
30: otuz
40: kırk
50: elli
60: altmış
70: yetmiş
80: seksen
90: doksan
100: yüz
200: ikiyüz
300: üçyüz
400: dörtyüz
500: beşyüz
600: altıyüz
700: yediyüz
800: sekizyüz
900: dokuzyüz
1000: bin
1.000.000: Bir milyon
1.000.000.000 Bir milyar

Examples:
21 will read       Yirmi bir

32 will read      Otuz iki

107 will read    yüz yedi

515 will read     beşyüz onbeş

1222 will read    bin ikiyüz yirmi iki

and so on...

As a drill write in Turkish the following figures:

343 - 511 - 2333 - 1,000,000 - 1,250,000

                                                             GRAMMATICAL  NOTES

The formation of ordinal numbers in Turkish requires the use special suffixes to be attached to the cardinal numbers.
These suffixes  are the following:

- inci   -ıncı   -üncü   -uncu

The choice of the appropriate suffix depend on the ordinal number we want to obtain and goes by the vowel harmony rule.

To better explain this concept let's have a look at te following 4 cases  and examples:

1. Dominant or final vowel in the figures:     -ı    (there are no figures ending in "a") 

Ordinal suffix to be attached:  -ıncı

Examples:  altı (six)   >>>>                     altıncı   (the sixth)
                    otuzaltı ( thirty-six) >>>>    otuzaltıncı ( the thirty -sixth)


     2. Dominant or final vowel in the figures: -ö    -ü

Ordinal suffıx  to be attached:   -üncü

Examples:   Dört (four)  >>>>>>>>         dördüncü (here it is a case of  Consonant mutation)
                     Seksen dört (eighty-four)>> Seksendördüncü (the eighty-fourth)

      3. Dominant or final vowel in the figures: -o    -u
Ordinal suffix to be attached: -uncu

Examples:    Dokuz (nine)>>>>>>>>>>> dokuzuncu (the nineth)
                      Ellidokuz (fifthy-nine) >>>>Ellidokuzuncu (The fifthy-nineth)


      4. Dominant or final vowel in the figures: -i      -e

Examples:    Yedi (seven) >>>>>>>>>>>            yedinci (the seventh)
                      Yirmi beş (twenty-five) >>>>         Yirmibeşinci (thetwenty-fifth)