Appendix:Swedish numerals
Numbers up to 20:
Cardinal | Ordinal | Noun (digit, coin or rank) |
Comment | |
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0 | noll | nollte | nolla | nolla = a fool, an idiot |
1 | ett or en | första | etta | etta = winner. See also femetta. Note: Ett is neuter, en is common gender; "the digit 1" is "siffran ett" or "en etta" in Swedish. |
2 | två | andra | tvåa | tvåa = runner-up; one bedroom apartment (counting the living room as the 2nd room) |
3 | tre | tredje | trea | |
4 | fyra | fjärde | fyra | Especially when counting, fyra is often pronounced as fyr. |
5 | fem | femte | femma | femma = five crown coin (or bill) |
6 | sex | sjätte | sexa | |
7 | sju | sjunde | sjua | |
8 | åtta | åttonde | åtta | åtta = an eight, as in figure skating. See also nollåtta |
9 | nio | nionde | nia | Nio is commonly pronounced as nie. |
10 | tio | tionde | tia | tia = ten crown coin (or bill). Tio is commonly pronounced as tie. |
11 | elva | elfte | elva | elva = a soccer team |
12 | tolv | tolfte | tolva | See also bluestolva |
13 | tretton | trettonde | ||
14 | fjorton | fjortonde | ||
15 | femton | femtonde | ||
16 | sexton | sextonde | ||
17 | sjutton | sjuttonde | ||
18 | arton | artonde | ||
19 | nitton | nittonde | ||
20 | tjugo | tjugonde | tjuga | Tjugo is usually pronounced tjugi. |
Multiples of 10:
Cardinal | Ordinal | English | Comment |
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tio | tionde | ten | |
tjugo | tjugonde | twenty | Tjugo is usually pronounced tjugi. For cardinal numbers between 21 and 29, tjugo is commonly pronounced as tju, e.g. tjuåtta for 28. |
trettio | trettionde | thirty | |
fyrtio | fyrtionde | forty | Fyrtio is pronounced as förti and sometimes written as förtio. |
femtio | femtionde | fifty | |
sextio | sextionde | sixty | |
sjuttio | sjuttionde | seventy | |
åttio | åttionde | eighty | |
nittio | nittionde | ninety | |
etthundra | hundrade | one hundred | One commonly only says etthundra to distinguish it from e.g. tvåhundra. |
etttusen | tusende | one thousand | |
en miljon | miljonte | one million | |
en miljard | miljarte | one billion | |
en biljon | biljonte | one trillion | |
en triljon | triljonte | one quintillion |
Numbers are made up like in English: 55 is femtiofem, 73rd is sjuttiotredje. The -tio ending is commonly pronounced as -ti for the cardinal numbers (but not for the ordinal numbers). Swedish uses the long scale, that is it uses same system for large numbers as British English, not American English.
Playing cards
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ess, äss | tvåa, två | trea, tre | fyra | femma, fem | sexa, sex | sjua, sju |
åtta | nia, nio | tia, tio | knekt | dam | kung | joker |
See also
edit- Appendix:Danish numerals
- Appendix:Räkneord (Swedish numbers compared to other languages)