Brojevi

Glavni brojevi govore koliko nečega ima, a redni označavaju mjesto u nizu. U engleskom se decimalni dio odvaja tačkom, a zarez često razdvaja hiljade.

Glavni i redni brojevi

Broj	Glavni broj	Redni broj
1	one	first
2	two	second
3	three	third
4	four	fourth
5	five	fifth
6	six	sixth
7	seven	seventh
8	eight	eighth
9	nine	ninth
10	ten	tenth
11	eleven	eleventh
12	twelve	twelfth
13	thirteen	thirteenth
14	fourteen	fourteenth
15	fifteen	fifteenth
16	sixteen	sixteenth
17	seventeen	seventeenth
18	eighteen	eighteenth
19	nineteen	nineteenth
20	twenty	twentieth
21	twenty-one	twenty-first
22	twenty-two	twenty-second
23	twenty-three	twenty-third
24	twenty-four	twenty-fourth
25	twenty-five	twenty-fifth
26	twenty-six	twenty-sixth
27	twenty-seven	twenty-seventh
28	twenty-eight	twenty-eighth
29	twenty-nine	twenty-ninth
30	thirty	thirtieth
31	thirty-one	thirty-first
40	forty	fortieth
50	fifty	fiftieth
60	sixty	sixtieth
70	seventy	seventieth
80	eighty	eightieth
90	ninety	ninetieth
100	one hundred	hundredth
500	five hundred	five hundredth
1,000	one thousand	thousandth
100,000	one hundred thousand	hundred thousandth
1,000,000	one million	millionth

U rednim brojevima često koristimo the: the first page, the twenty-second question. Složene brojeve od twenty-one do ninety-nine pišemo s crticom.

Brojevi u rečenicama

There are twenty-five people in the room.U sobi je dvadeset i pet ljudi.

He was the fourteenth person to win the award.Bio je četrnaesta osoba koja je osvojila nagradu.

She visited Croatia for the third time this year.Ove godine treći put je posjetila Hrvatsku.

Decimale i procenti

Zapis	Čitanje
0.5	zero point five / nought point five
0.25	zero point two five
0.75	zero point seven five
25%	twenty-five percent
75%	seventy-five percent
100%	one hundred percent

Half znači polovina, a quarter četvrtina, a three quarters tri četvrtine. Cifre poslije decimalne tačke obično čitamo pojedinačno.

Novac, mjere i godine

Zapis	Čitanje
$1,200	one thousand two hundred dollars
£16,486	sixteen thousand four hundred and eighty-six pounds
545 km	five hundred and forty-five kilometres
$25.35	twenty-five dollars and thirty-five cents
1988	nineteen eighty-eight
1999	nineteen ninety-nine
2026	twenty twenty-six / two thousand and twenty-six

U američkom engleskom često se izostavlja and unutar cijelog broja. Oznaka kilometra je km, bez množinskog s.

Kako čitamo nulu

Oblik	Kontekst
zero	Opći izraz i temperatura: zero degrees.
nought	Čest britanski oblik u matematici i decimalama.
oh	Čest u telefonskim brojevima i drugim nizovima cifara.
nil	Čest u britanskom govoru o sportskom rezultatu: two nil.
nothing	Moguć u američkom govoru o rezultatu: two to nothing.

It is minus twenty degrees Celsius.Temperatura je −20 °C, odnosno dvadeset stepeni ispod nule.

Pozitivnih 20 °C čitamo twenty degrees Celsius, bez minus.