Now we are going to talk about cardinal numbers in Farsi. Unlike Persian
characters, numbers in Farsi, like English, are written from left to right. So for
example, you have:
یک، دو ، سه ، چهار، پنج، شش، هفت، هست، نه، ده.
So they are written from right to
left. Another point about the cardinal numbers
in Farsi is that when you want to count something, the noun that is
supposed to be counted comes right after the cardinal number. For example, you want
to say one book: "یک کتاب؛. So "کتاب" comes after the number.
دو خانه
سه دانشگاه
As you can see, the noun comes after the number. Or the number comes before the
noun that is supposed to be counted.
یک کتاب، دو خانه، سه دانشگاه.
Another point about using cardinal numbers in Farsi, and in general numbers in
Forsi: no noun after cardinal numbers can be plural. All the nouns will
be singular. Look. "یک کتاب".
Or "سه دانشگاه", and "سه دانشگاه ها" is wrong.
صد دفتر
100 notebook, not 100 notebooks, in Farsi. So if you say
صد سیب ها
to pluralize it, "صد سیب ها", a hundred apples, it's wrong in Farsi. In Farsi, it's 100
apple. So this example is wrong. "صد سیب", without the sign of plural.
Another point about cardinal numbers in Farsi is related to pronunciation. When
you count till 19, "نوزده", then you have 20 "بیست". Now you want to say 21. So
the way you say is "بیست و یک".
20 and 1. Then 20 and 2. "بیست و دو". The point here is that
even though we write "بیست و یک", etc.
we pronounced the "و"
like the "oh" sound. We don't say miss "بیست و یک", but "bist-o yek."
You say "bist-o do." etc.
Even though we ride, for example,
"چهل و یک"
We pronounce it "chehel-o yek." So this "و" is pronounced "oh."
These were points about cardinal numbers in Farsi. They are
written from left to right, the word which is the counted comes
after the number, and there is no plural noun after numbers in Farsi.
صد دفتر، یک کتاب. صد کتاب. یک دفتر. صد دفتر.
To say "صد دفترها" is wrong. And the another point was the way we should pronounce the "و"
over 20. We write "بیست و یک", but we read it "bist-o yek."
We write "بیست و دو", but we read it "bist-o do." These were the
points related to the cardinal numbers in Farsi.