Number word
the Numerale (lat., Plural: Numeralien, sometimes also Numeralia) is set in the linguistics sometimes own kind of word and calls number words.
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basic figure words (cardinal numbers)
basic figure words placing, like the name assume leaves, the fundamental number words.
- Examples: one, two, twelve, seventeen, hundred one hundred-three, also: both
unity becomes after the Kasus (case) and the Genus (Sex) DEK-lines:
- a man, a Mrs., a child (all together Nominativ)
- the dress of a Mrs. (genitive), the hat of a man (dative)
- I gives you an apple. (Accusative)
two and three become, if them itself on Noun refer, only in the genitive (Wes case) DEK-lined and also then only if the linguistic case is identifiable by the preceding word not already:
- the hat of two men
- one hangs the dress of three sisters, the dress of my
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] of repetition words to a cardinal numberthe suffix - times, from it a repetition word becomes. Repetition words refer to verbs and not to nouns, it are therefore adverbs.
One differentiates internal ones and external one repetition words between:
- determined: once, four times, twelve times
- indefinitely: sometimes, several times
repetition words may after new orthographyseparated to be written, if it itself A) around multielement Numerale acts (three million time), if b) a diffraction is present (hundred times) or C) for stress purposes (three times `).
If one adds additionally the suffix - industrial union , the repetition word becomes one Adjective (example: uniquely).
the duplication number word (Multiplikativum
) one receives duplication number words (Multiplikativalitationswort), by attaching the suffix to a cardinal number fold.
- in addition, double conclusion , quadruple
winner also simply is a Multiplikativum, it its own meaning assumed (among other things inSenses of simple).
ordinal number words (ordinal numbers)
with the help of the ordinal number words it is to be provided possible to sequences. One and three are strongly bent:
- the first knight, my third chicken
the remaining ordinal numbers under twenty by the suffix - width unit, numbers are formed starting from twentythrough - ste.
- the second knight, my fifth chicken
- the twentieth knight, my indefinite number words
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information to eight-and fifty-width unit chicken [work on] over the concrete number, give however a feeling for the size of the quantity.
- some knights, some chickens, all humans, a whole city
- the luggage of some visitors (genitive), the list of any errors (dative)
in the colloquial language instead of everything is used often completely:
- Standardsprache: all humans
- colloquial language: whole humans
Substantivierung
of number wordscan become nouns, then (and only then) one writes it largely.
- I am first.
- On the whole…
- You are a zero.
resuming information
see also
number name, kind of word, way of writing of numbers, of numbers in differentLanguages, association twenty-unity
| Wiktionary: Numerale - word origin, synonyms and translations |
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