Brojevi na engleskom

Nezaobilazna oblast za one koje žele da nauče engleski su svakako brojevi(numbers). Ovdje ćemo obraditi samo glavne (cardinal) brojeve.

Brojevi od nula do deset su kratki i lako se pamte

• 0 - zero /ˈzɪərəʊ/
• 1 - one /wʌn/
• 2 - two /tuː/
• 3 - three /θriː/
• 4 - four /fɔː(r)/
• 5 - five /faɪv/
• 6 - six /sɪks/
• 7 - seven /ˈsev(ə)n/
• 8 - eight /eɪt/
• 9 - nine /naɪn/
• 10 - ten /ten/

Primjetit ćete da se brojevi od 13 do 19 završavaju isto, i to dodavanjem na brojeve prve desetice nastavak, tj. sufiks “teen”. Kod brojeva 13 i 15 postoji malo odstupanja.

• 11 - eleven
• 12 - twelve
• 13 - thirteen
• 14 - fourteen
• 15 - fifteen
• 16 - sixteen
• 17 - seventeen
• 18 - eighteen
• 19 - nineteen

Ostali dvocifreni brojevi se pišu tako što se između desetice i jedinice stavi crtica

• 26 - twenty-six
• 31 - thirty-one
• 48 - forty-eight
• 52 - fifty-two
• 67 - sixty-seven
• 73 - seventy-three
• 89 - eighty-nine
• 94 - ninety-four

Primjeri brojeva u rečenicama

• Nikola has five balls.
• Nikola ima pet lopti.

• There are nineteen pupils in my class.
• U mom razredu ima devetnaest učenika.

• My grandmother is eighty-five years old.
• Moja baka ima osamdeset godina.

• What is your lucky number?
• Koji je tvoj srećan broj?

• My lucky number is nine.
• Moj srećni broj je devet.

• What is your phone number?
• Koji je tvoj broj telefona?

• My phone number is: oh six five, three one eight, four seven oh
• Moj broj telefona je: 065 - 318 - 470

Brojevi veći od stotinu

• 100 - a /one hundred
• 200 - two hundred
• 1 000 - a /one thousand
• 2 000 - two thousand
• 1 000 000 - a /one million
• 1 000 000 000 - a /one billion

U britanskom engleskom poslije stotinu slijedi “and”, za razliku od američkog gdje izostaje ova riječ.

• 105 - one hundred and five ( br.eng.) / one hundred five (am.eng.)
• 436 - four hundred and thirty-six / four hundred thirty-six
• 873 - eight hundred seventy-three
• 119 - one hundred nineteen

Kada govorimo o velikim ( large ) brojevima, vodimo se sledećim redoslijedom: milijarde, milioni, hiljade, stotine, desetice i na kraju jedinice.

• 8 290 - eight thousand two hundred ninety
• 15 560 – fifteen thousand five hundred sixty
• 786 450 – seven hundred six thousand four hundred fifty
• 342 713 - three hundred forty-two thousand seven hundred thirteen
• 342 713 - three hundred forty-two thousand seven hundred thirteen

• 2 450 000 – two million four hundred fifty thousand
• 27 805 234 - twenty-seven million eight hundred five thousands two hundred thirty-four
• 934 700 000 – nine hundred thirty-four million seven hundred thousand
• 589 432 420 - five hundred eighty-nine million four hundred thirty-two thousand four hundred twenty

• 43 870 550 000 - forty-three billion eight hundred seventy million five hundred fifty thousand
• 621 493 570 812 - six hundred twenty-one billion four hundred ninety-three million five hundred fifty thousand eight hundred twelve

Kod pisanja i čitanja godina važe druga pravila. Prve godine novog vijeka se čitaju na sledeći način:

• 1004 - one thousand four
• 1100 - eleven hundred
• 2000 - two thousand

Za ostale godine važi pravilo da se godine čitaju kao dva broja

• 1759 - seventeen fifty-nine
• 1823 - eighteen twenty-three
• 1564 -fifteen sixty-four
• 1999 - nineteen ninety-nine