1) one 1st first
2) two 2nd second
3) three 3rd third
4) four 4th fourth
5) five 5th fifth
6) six 6th sixth
7) seven 7th seventh
8) eight 8th eighth
9) nine 9th ninth
10) ten 10th tenth
11) eleven 11th eleventh
12) twelve 12th twelfth
13) thirteen 13th thirteenth
20) twenty 20th twentieth
31) thirty-one 31st thirty-first
42) forty-two 42nd forty-second
153 a/one hundred and fifty-three 153rd one hundred and
fifty-third
986 nine hundred and eighty-six 986th nine hundred and
eighty- sixth
Note: Ordinal Numbers/Numerals are usually used with the definite article
Note: In British English the and is always used: one hundred and fifty-
three, two hundred and forty-one. But in American English it is
often left out: one hundred fifty-three, two hundred forty-one.
1,001 a/ one thousand (and) one
1,122 one thousand, one hundred (and) twenty-two
2,000 two thousand
1,000,000 one million
1,000,000,000 a/ one thousand million (a/ one billion esp. AmE, but
now also BrE)
Remember: 1) when writing a number of four digits or more separate the numbers by placing a comma every three digits counting from the right; 2) no plural should be used here: 1,236,457 one million, two hundred and thirty six thousand, four hundred and fifty-seven.
NOTE: When saying a long number, you should pronounce each set of up to three digits separately with rising intonation, until the last set where the intonation falls at the end to make it clear that the number is complete: 526 623 457.
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Exercise 1. Give Russian equivalents of the following:
unemployment figures
exact figures
to read the numbers on the chart
a nine-digit account number
a six figure number
digital TV
a digital camera
the Arabic numeral
the Roman numeral
numerical code
double figures
single figures
odd number
even number
the average of 3,8 and 10 is 7
even number can be divided by 2
4,708 is a four-digit number
a considerable amount of money
a large quantity of alcohol
50 grams of butter, and the same quantity of sugar
Exercise 2
1. Give English equivalents of the following:
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