Language/Northern-kurdish/Vocabulary/Counting-and-Numbers

This page will teach you how to count in Kurdish Kurmanji.

Kurmanji (Kurmancî) is the most widespread Kurdish dialect, and is part of the Iranian language group in the Indo-European languages.

It is spoken in the 4 parts of Kurdistan mainly in Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Iran.

Kurdish Kurmanji can be written both in the Latin alphabet and in Cyrillic alphabet.

0 to 9

Numbers from zero to nine need specific words:

• sifir (0)
• yek (1)
• du/didu (2)
• sê/sisê (3)
• çar (4)
• pênc (5)
• şeş (6)
• heft (7)
• heşt (8)
• neh (9)

11 to 19

Numbers from eleven to nineteen are built by putting the figure of the unit before the word for ten (deh), without spaces:

• yanzdeh / yazde (h) (11)
• dwanzdeh (12)
• sêzdeh (13)
• çardeh (14)
• panzdeh / pazdeh (15)
• şanzdeh / şazdeh (16)
• hivdeh (17)
• hijdeh (18)
• nozdeh (19)

Dozens

Dozens have names based on the root of the multiplier digit, except for ten and twenty:

• deh (10)
• bîst (20)
• sî (30)
• çil (40)
• pêncî (50)
• şêst (60)
• heftê (70)
• heştê (80)
• nod (90).

Hundreds

The hundreds are built by putting the multiplier digit, then the word for hundred (sed) without space.

Examples:

• pêncsed (500)
• şeşsed (600)

Thousands

The thousands are built by putting the multiplier digit, then the word for thousand (Hezar), with the exception of five thousand :

• çar hezar (4 000)
• pênj hezar (5 000)
• şeş hezar (6 000)

Compound Numbers

Compound numbers are constructed by linking the ten and the unit, the hundred and ten, a thousand and hundred with the word û:

• sî û du (32)
• heftê û yek (71)
• sed û yek (101)
• hezar û dused (1 200)

There is a specific word for one hundred thousand:

• lek (100,000)
• kirûr (500 000)

A million

A million is translated by "milyon".

Links

Kurdish vocabulary

http://www.omniglot.com/language/phrases/kurdish-kurmanji.php

http://polyglotclub.com/language/kurdish/post/5071

http://www.wikihow.com/Learn-Key-Phrases-in-Kurdish

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