Russian numbers and pronunciation

Russian is a language  Very popular Indo-European spoken in several European countries such as Russia, Kazakhstan, Belarus and Kyrgyzstan. Currently there are approximately 164 million people who speak and master this language. The Cyrillic and Latin alphabet can be used to write Russian.

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To learn Russian more easily, it is important that you know the Cyrillic alphabet, which has 33 signs, that is, 6 more letters than the Latin alphabet used in the Spanish language.

One of the advantages of knowing the Cyrillic alphabet is that you will have the ability to easily learn numerals and other important aspects of the Russian language.

Learn the numbers in Russian

In this important article you will learn the rules of Russian numbers, their pronunciation and grammar. It should be mentioned that learning these numbers is of great importance because they are used in all the daily conversations and activities of people who have Russian as their native language.

To learn Russian numbers correctly it is important that you have an excellent command of grammar and pronunciation and follow the rules related to numbering. Here is a small cheat sheet that you can download with the numbers in Russian from 1 to 10.

Russian numbers from 1 to 10

Main rules related to the numbering of the Russian language

1. The figures from zero to nine are characterized by having a specific name:

1 - один (odin)

2 - две (dve)

3 - три (tri)

4 - четыре (četyre)

5 - пять (pâtʹ)

6 - шесть (šestʹ)

7 - семь (semʹ)

8 - восемь (vosemʹ)

9 - девять (devâtʹ)

10 - десять (desâtʹ)

2. To form the tens it is important to add the word by ten or десят, always desât after the multiplier figure to obtain the correct quantity in tens.

10 - девять (devâtʹ)

20 - двадцать (dvadcatʹ)

30 - тридцать (tridcatʹ)

40 - сорок (sorok)

50 - пятьдесят (pâtʹdesât)

60 - шестьдесят (šestʹdesât)

70 - семьдесят (semʹdesât)

80 - (vosemʹdesât)

90 - девяносто (devânosto)

3. In the numbers that comprise eleven to nineteen, those numbers that are composite they are always formed with the phrase for ten or (надцать, nadcatʹ), without using spaces

11 - одиннадцать (odinnadcatʹ)

12 - двенадцать (dvenadcatʹ)

13 - тринадцать (trinadcatʹ)

14 - четырнадцать (četyrnadcatʹ)

15 - пятнадцать (pâtnadcatʹ)

16 - шестнадцать (šestnadcatʹ)

17 - семнадцать (semnadcatʹ)

18 - восемнадцать (vosemnadcatʹ)

19 - девятнадцать (devâtnadcatʹ)

4. To form the composite numbers that comprise from twenty-one to 90, the dozen must be used, and then the unit will be separated by a space

The example of composite numbers is as follows:

23 - двадцать три (dvadcatʹ tri)

35 - тридцать пять (tridcatʹ pâtʹ)

5. To form the hundreds, you must first put the multiplying number generally before the phrase for one hundred, which always takes different forms:

100 st  (sto):  one hundred

200двести (dvyé-sti) two hundred

300триста (trí-sta) three hundred

400 chetyresta (chye-ty-rye-sta)  four hundred

500 pyatsot  (pyet-sót) five hundred

600 shest  (shes-sót) six hundred

700 semis  (syem-sót) seven hundred

800восемьсот (va-syem-sót) eight hundred

900девятсот - (dye-vyet-sót) nine hundred

1000 tons  (tý-sya-cha) thousand

6. To form the thousands it is important to always put the multiplying number before the phrase for one thousand.  (тысяча, tysâča), which always takes on a different form when multipliers two, three, and four are used.

Example of the thousands in the numbering in Russian language:

1 000 - тысяча (tysâča) thousand

2 000 две тысячи (dve tysâči) two thousand

3 000 три тысячи (tri tysâči) three thousand

4 четыре тысячи (četyre tysâči) four thousand

5 000 пять тысяч (pâtʹ tysâč) five thousand

6 шесть тысяч (šestʹ tysâč) six thousand

7 семь тысяч (semʹ tysâč) seven thousand

8 восемь тысяч (vosemʹ tysâč) eight thousand

9 девять тысяч (devâtʹ tysâč) nine thousand

7. The rules of numbers in Russian specify that when a number is considered composite, the thousands must be said or mentioned before the hundreds, and hundreds before tens, and tens before ones:

Example of numbering with composite numbers:

три тысячи, четыреста пятьдесят шесть (tri tysâči, četyresta pâtʹdesât šestʹ): 3 456

8. In the case of the word million миллион (million) you have to use the phrase per billion or миллиард (milliard).

Within the Russian numbering you can also find ordinal numbers which indicate the position of an element in a completely ordered sequence, for example: first, second, etc.

List of ordinal numbers of excellent interest

First of all  pyerviy pervy

second vtoroy второй

third tryetiy третий

fourth chyetvyertiy четвертый

fifth pyatiy пятый

sixth shyestoy шестой

seventh syedʲmoy седьмой

eighth vosʲmoy восьмой

ninth dyevyatiy девятый

tenth dyesyatiy десятый

eleventh odinnadtzatiy одиннадцатый

twelfth dvyenadtzatiy двенадцатый

thirteenth trinadtzatiy тринадцатый

fourteenth chyetirnadtzatiy четырнадцатый

fifteenth pyatnadtzatiy пятнадцатый

sixteenth shyestnadtzatiy шестнадцатый

seventeenth syemnadtzatiy семнадцатый

eighteenth vosyemnadtzatiy восемнадцатый

nineteenth dyevyatnadtzatiy девятнадцатый

twentieth dvadtzatiy двадцатый

once root раз

twice dvaʐsay дважды

This has been it, we hope you liked it, that you have learned the numbers in Russian and then we end with a video in which you can listen to the correct pronunciation from native speakers of this language:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdB-FiRp8vI

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