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We think it’s safe to say that nobody likes to learn numbers. But when you know them, so many things become easier: asking for a price, paying for the goods, making appointments and so on. So today, we dedicate the lesson to the Russian numbers.
Russian numbers from 0 to 10
Listen to the audio and repeat after it:
0 – ноль / нуль [nol’ / nul’]
1 – оди́н [a-déen]
2 – два [dva]
3 – три [ trée ]
4 – четы́ре [chee-tý-rye]
5 – пять [pyat’]
6 – шесть [shest’]
7 – семь [sem’]
8 – во́семь [vó-seem’]
9 – де́вять [dyé-veet’]
10 – де́сять [dyé-seet’]
Russian numbers from 11 to 19
After you learned the basics, making the next bunch of Russian numbers is mostly a matter of adding -надцать to the number you already know (although the base slightly changes in some cases, it’s better to simply memorize all of them):
11 – оди́ннадцать [a-dée-na-tsat’]
12 – двена́дцать [dvee-ná-tsat’]
13 – трина́дцать [tree-ná-tsat’]
14 – четы́рнадцать [chee-týr-na-tsat’]
15 – пятна́дцать [peet-ná-tsat’]
16 – шестна́дцать [shees-na-tsat’]
17 – семна́дцать [seem-ná-tsat’]
18 – восемна́дцать [va-seem-ná-tsat’]
19 – девятна́дцать [dee-veet-ná-tsat’]
Tens in Russian
There is no strict logic behind how the tens are composed in the Russian language. So it is better to simply memorize them too.
Here they are:
20 – два́дцать [dvá-tsat’]
30 – три́дцать [trée-tsat’]
40 – со́рок [só-rak]
50 – пятьдеся́т [peet’-dee-syát]
60 – шестьдеся́т [sheest’-dee-syát]
70 – се́мьдесят [syém’-dee-syát]
80 – во́семьдесят [vó-seem’-dee-syát]
90 – девяно́сто [dee-vee-nós-ta]
100 – сто [sto]
Compound numbers
Making compound numbers in Russian is very easy: to compose a number with 2 digits just say two words one by one:
21 – два́дцать оди́н
32 – три́дцать два
44 – со́рок четы́ре
57 – пятьдеся́т семь
63 – шестьдеся́т три
78 – се́мьдесят во́семь
85 – во́семьдесят пять
99 – девяно́сто де́вять
Congratulations! Now you can count from 0 to 100 in Russian! Repeat the numbers a few times so you memorize them better.
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