CARDINAL NUMBERS
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CARDINAL NUMBERS
The names of the first ten natural numbers are borrowed from Russian:
1 - odin, 2 - dva, 3 - tri, 4 - “čjetǐrje” or “cjetǐrj”, 5 - pjatj, 6 - šestj, 7 - sjemj, 8 - vosjemj, 9 - djevjatj, 10 - “djesjatj” or “dcatj”.
Now logic comes into play:
11 odin-nad-dcatj (one over ten)
12 dva-nad-dcatj (two over ten)
13 tri-nad-dcatj (three over ten)
14 - čjetǐrj(e)-nad-dcatj
15 - pjatj-nad-dcatj
16 - šestj-nad-dcatj
17 - sjemj-nad-dzatj
18 - vosjemj-nad-dcatj
19 - djevjatj-nad-dcatj
“Ten” is “djesjatj” or “dcatj”.
The plural of tens is “djesjati” or “dcati”.
Therefore,
20 is two tens, dva-dcati
21 is dva-dcati-i-odin or dva-dcati-odin.
22 is dva-dcati-i-dva or dva-dcati-dva.
23 is 2va-dcati-i-tri or dva-dcati-tri.
30 is three tens, tri-dcati.
40 is four tens, čjetǐrj-djesjati.
50 is five tens, pjatj-djesjati.
60 is six tens, šestj-djesjati.
70 is sjemj-djesjati.
80 is vosjemj-djesjati.
90 is djevjatj-djesjati
100 - sto
“Hundred” is “sto,” plural, “hundreds” is “stǐ”
Therefore
200 - dva-stǐ
300 - tri-stǐ
400 - čjetǐ-stǐ
500 - pjatj-stǐ
600 - šjestj-stǐ
700 - sjemj-stǐ
800 - vosjemj-stǐ
900 - djevjatj-stǐ
1000 - tǐsjačja
plural: tǐsjači
Therefore:
2000 - dva-tǐsjači
3000 - tri-tǐsjači
4000 - čjetǐrje-tǐsjači
5000 - pjatj-tǐsjači
…
1,000,000 - milion
2,000,000 - dva milionǐ
1,000,000,000 - miliard
2,000,000,000 - dva miliardǐ
Cardinal numbers in LPQR are not inflected - they are not declined for case, and do not agree with nouns and adjectives for gender. After the numerals dva and more, the plural form of nouns is indicated, which does not inflect for case.
odin mužčina - one man
dva mužčinǐ - two men
pjatj mužčinǐ - five men
odin ženšina - one woman
dva ženšinǐ - two women
pjatj ženšinǐ - five women
odin dom - one house
dva domǐ - two houses
pjatj domǐ - five houses
How to read letters according to IPA signs:
c - like [t͡s]
ċ - like [k]
č - like [tʃ]
ǐ - like [ɨ]
j - after consonants is not pronounced, but softens the consonant sound (like a soft sign in Russian), in other cases like [j]
s - like [s]
š - before “i” or “j” approximately like [ɕː] or [ʃʲ] or [ʃtʃ], in other cases like [ʃ]
v - like [v]
z - like [z]
ž - like [ʒ]
Other letters. approximately like in German