Transcript Numbers in English Numbers in figures 1, 2, 3, 4, etc… Numbers in full One, two, three, four, etc… Pronunciation • Thirty (very short) • Thirteen (looooooong) Spelling numbers • Four •

Numbers in English
Numbers in figures
1, 2, 3, 4, etc…
Numbers in full
One, two, three, four, etc…
Pronunciation
• Thirty
(very short)
• Thirteen
(looooooong)
Spelling numbers
• Four
• Fourteen
• Forty (no u)
Spelling numbers
• Twenty-one
• Thirty-two
• Forty-three
Use hyphens for two-word numbers
between 21 and 99
Writing numbers
1,333
One thousand three hundred and thirty-three
1.333
One point three three three
English is the opposite of Portuguese!
Use commas to separate thousands and millions
Use points to separate decimals
Saying decimal numbers
1.333
One point three three three
Say point, not dot
Say each number after the decimal point
separately
0.21
Zero point two one
192.03
One hundred and ninety two point zero three
Saying numbers
In British English, you always say and after hundred
144 - one hundred and forty-four
262 - two hundred and sixty-two
371 - three hundred and seventy-one
1468 - one thousand, four hundred and sixty-eight
And you also say and when the third number to the
left is a zero
1044 - one thousand and forty-four
2062 - two thousand and sixty-two
3001 - three thousand and one
1008 - one thousand and eight
(in American English, you don’t have to say and)
Saying large numbers
Split the number in groups of three (starting from the right)
and let the commas help you
1, 347 ,890 ,651
thousand
billion
million
One billion, three hundred and forty-seven million, eight hundred and ninety thousand, six hundred and fifty-one
Practise saying these numbers
1589
one thousand, five hundred and eighty-nine
8007
eight thousand and seven
10,401
ten thousand, four hundred and one
98,791.541
ninety-eight thousand, seven hundred and ninety-one point five, four, one
10,300,500
ten million, three hundred thousand, five hundred
9,701,888,432
nine billion, seven hundred and one million, eight hundred and eighty-eight thousand, four
hundred and thirty-two
683,001,020
six hundred and eighty three million, one thousand and twenty
Million and Billion
7,000,000
Portuguese: sete milhões
English: seven million (no “s”)
2,000,000,000
English: two billion (no “s”)
Portuguese: dois mil milhões (different system!)