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Cardinal Numbers by Jeffery Donley, Ph.D.

In German, you do not capitalize numbers except for die Null (“the zero”), die Million (“the million”), and die Milliarde (“the billion”). You also always write numbers as one word.

Exercise 24

TRACK 18

Listen and translate.

<tgroup cols="2" align="center"> <colspec colnum="1" colname="col1" colwidth="50%" colsep="0" rowsep="0" align="left"/> <colspec colnum="2" colname="col2" colwidth="50%" colsep="0" rowsep="0" align="left"/> <tbody> <tr> <td><p>1. thirteen</p></td> <td><p>________________</p></td> </tr> <tr> <td><p>2. nineteen</p></td> <td><p>________________</p></td> </tr> <tr> <td><p>3. sixteen</p></td> <td><p>________________</p></td> </tr> <tr> <td><p>4. seventeen</p></td> <td><p>________________</p></td> </tr> <tr> <td><p>5. sixty</p></td> <td><p>________________</p></td> </tr> <tr> <td><p>6. seventy</p></td> <td><p>________________</p></td> </tr> <tr> <td><p>7. twenty</p></td> <td><p>________________</p></td> </tr> <tr> <td><p>8. thirty</p></td> <td><p>________________</p></td> </tr> <tr> <td><p>9. zero</p></td> <td><p>________________</p></td> </tr> <tr> <td><p>10. million</p></td> <td><p>________________</p></td> </tr> <tr> <td><p>11. billion</p></td> <td><p>________________</p></td> </tr> <tr> <td><p>12. one o'clock</p></td> <td><p>________________</p></td> </tr> <tr> <td><p>13. It is one o'clock.</p></td> <td><p>________________</p></td> </tr> </tbody> </tgroup> </table> <h2>Exercise 25</h2> <p>Combine a cardinal number and -<emphasis>mal</emphasis> (from <emphasis>das Mal</emphasis>, “the time”) to describe how many times something happens.</p> <p>Match the German words with the correct English translations.</p> <table width="100%" frame="none"> <title/> <tgroup cols="2" align="center"> <colspec colnum="1" colname="col1" colwidth="25%" colsep="0" rowsep="0" align="left"/> <colspec colnum="2" colname="col2" colwidth="25%" colsep="0" rowsep="0" align="left"/> <tbody> <tr> <td><p>1. <emphasis>zwanzigmal</emphasis></p></td> <td><p>ten times</p></td> </tr> <tr> <td><p>2. <emphasis>dreimal</emphasis></p></td> <td><p>three times</p></td> </tr> <tr> <td><p>3. <emphasis>zehnmal</emphasis></p></td> <td><p>twenty times</p></td> </tr> <tr> <td><p>4. <emphasis>einmal</emphasis></p></td> <td><p>thousand times</p></td> </tr> <tr> <td><p>5. <emphasis>tausendmal</emphasis></p></td> <td><p>once</p></td> </tr> <tr> <td><p>6. <emphasis>viermal</emphasis></p></td> <td><p>hundred times</p></td> </tr> <tr> <td><p>7. <emphasis>zweimal</emphasis></p></td> <td><p>four times</p></td> </tr> <tr> <td><p>8. <emphasis>hundertmal</emphasis></p></td> <td><p>twice</p></td> </tr> </tbody> </tgroup> </table> <h2>Exercise 26</h2> <div class="npmo"><img src="http://0.tqn.com/d/np/german-practice/track.jpg"><div class="npcp"><p>TRACK 19</p></div></div> <p>Make ordinal numbers by attaching -<emphasis>t</emphasis> to the cardinal numbers from 1–19 and -<emphasis>st</emphasis> to numbers from 20 on. Decline ordinal numbers like adjectives and do not write them out if they are used in designating chapters or when stating dates or centuries. When you attach -<emphasis>ens</emphasis> to the stem of the ordinal number, you make numbers that are used adverbially. For example: <emphasis>Erstens komme ich nicht, und zweitens</emphasis>… translates as “first of all, I'm not coming, and secondly…”</p> <p>Listen and translate the following German phrases and sentences.</p> <ul> <li><p><emphasis>Der wievielte ist heute?</emphasis></p> <p>____________________________________________________</p></li> <li><p><emphasis>Heute ist der 3. (dritte) Juli</emphasis>.</p> <p>____________________________________________________</p></li> <li><p><emphasis>Chicago, den 19. Oktober 1939</emphasis>…</p> <p>____________________________________________________</p></li> <li><p><emphasis>Gestern war der 19. November</emphasis>.</p> <p>____________________________________________________</p></li> <li><p><emphasis>Er ist am 12. August geboren</emphasis>.</p> <p>____________________________________________________</p></li> <li><p><emphasis>Goethe wurde am 28. August 1749 geboren</emphasis>.</p> <p>____________________________________________________</p></li> <li><p><emphasis>das 12. Kapitel</emphasis> </p></li> <li><p><emphasis>erstens</emphasis> ________________</p></li> <li><p><emphasis>zweitens</emphasis> ________________</p></li> <li><p><emphasis>drittens</emphasis> ________________</p></li> </ul> <h2>Exercise 27</h2> <p>Combine a cardinal number with -<emphasis>tel</emphasis> to construct most fractional numbers that are compounds, such as <emphasis>ein Zehntel</emphasis> (“one-tenth”). Do not decline these fractional numbers, but do decline <emphasis>halb</emphasis> (“half”), which is an adjective (declined as such) and is lowercase. Make sure that you take off the -t of acht before the ending -tel. Remember that the ending -stel is attached for numbers from zwanzig (“twenty”) and above.</p> <p>Translate the following.</p> <table frame="none" width="100%"> <title/> <tgroup cols="2" align="center"> <colspec colname="col1" colnum="1" colwidth="50%" align="left" rowsep="0" colsep="0"/> <colspec colname="col2" colnum="2" colwidth="50%" align="left" rowsep="0" colsep="0"/> <tbody> <tr> <td><p>1. <emphasis>dreiviertel</emphasis></p></td> <td><p>________________</p></td> </tr> <tr> <td><p>2. <emphasis>zweiachtel</emphasis></p></td> <td><p>________________</p></td> </tr> <tr> <td><p>3. <emphasis>zweieinhalb</emphasis></p></td> <td><p>________________</p></td> </tr> <tr> <td><p>4. <emphasis>Er gab ihr einen halben Euro</emphasis>.</p></td> <td><p>________________</p></td> </tr> <tr> <td><p>5. <emphasis>ein Zwanzigstel</emphasis></p></td> <td><p>________________</p></td> </tr> <tr> <td><p>6. <emphasis>ein Achtel</emphasis></p></td> <td><p>________________</p></td> </tr> <tr> <td><p>7. <emphasis>anderthalb</emphasis></p></td> <td><p>________________</p></td> </tr> <tr> <td><p>8. <emphasis>dreieinhalb</emphasis></p></td> <td><p>________________</p></td> </tr> </tbody> </tgroup> </table> <h2>Exercise 28</h2> <p>When you do arithmetic, you <emphasis>spell acht mal</emphasis> (“eight times”), and <emphasis>zweimal</emphasis> (“two times”) in two words. The mal is colloquial for <emphasis>multipliziert mit</emphasis> (“multiplied by”), for example, acht mal vier (8 x 4). Otherwise, it is one word: <emphasis>Ich klopfte zweimal an seine Tür</emphasis>. (“I knocked twice on his door.”)</p> <p>Study the arithmetic below. 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