How to write numbers

in legal translation

There are two main types of numbers:

Cardinal Numbers - 1 (one), 2 (two) etc. (Used
mainly for counting)
Ordinal Numbers - 1st (first), 2nd (second) etc.
(Used mainly for putting things in a sequence)

Cardinal Numbers
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Cardinal numbers are normally used when you:
count things:
I have two brothers. There are thirty-one days in January.
give your age:
I am thirty-three years old. My sister is twenty-seven years old.
give your telephone number:
Our phone number is two-six-three, three-eight-four-seven. (4812240)
give years:
She was born in nineteen seventy-five (1975). America was
discovered in fourteen ninety-two
Notice how we divide the year into two parts. This is the form for
year up to 1999. For the year 2000 and on, we say two thousand
(2000), two thousand and one (2001), two thousand and two (2002)
etc.

Ordinal Numbers
You can normally create Ordinal numbers by adding -TH to the end of a
Cardinal Number.
Ordinal numbers are normally used when you:
give a date:
My birthday is on the 27th of January. (Twenty-seventh of January)
put things in a sequence or order:
Liverpool came second in the football league last year.
give the floor of a building:
His office is on the tenth floor.
have birthdays:
He had a huge party for his twenty-first birthday.

Cardinal Numbers
1 - one
2 - two
3 - three
4 - four
5 - five
6 - six
7 - seven
8 - eight
9 - nine
10 - ten
11 - eleven
12 - twelve
13 - thirteen
14 - fourteen
15 - fifteen
16 - sixteen
17 - seventeen
18 - eighteen
19 - nineteen
20 - twenty

21 - twenty-one
22 - twenty-two
23 - twenty-three
30 - thirty
40 - forty
50 - fifty
60 - sixty
70 - seventy
80 - eighty
90 - ninety
100 - one hundred*
101 - one hundred and one
200 - two hundred
300 - three hundred
1000 - one thousand
1,000,000 - one million
10,000,000 - ten million

Notes
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Instead of saying One Hundred, you can say A
hundred. e.g. (127) one hundred and twenty-seven
OR (127) a hundred and twenty-seven.
The same rule applies for one thousand (a thousand)
and one million (a million)
Notice that you need to use a hyphen (-) when you
write the numbers between 21 and 99.
With long numbers, we usually divide them into
groups of three which are divided by a comma. e.g.
5000000 (5 million) is normally written as 5,000,000

Ordinal Numbers
1st - first
2nd - second
3rd - third
4th - fourth
5th - fifth
6th - sixth
7th - seventh
8th - eighth
9th - ninth
10th - tenth
11th - eleventh
12th - twelfth
13th - thirteenth
14th - fourteenth
15th - fifteenth
16th - sixteenth
17th - seventeenth
18th - eighteenth
19th - nineteenth
20th - twentieth
21st - twenty-first

22nd - twenty-second
23rd - twenty-third
30th - thirtieth
40th - fortieth
50th - fiftieth
60th - sixtieth
70th - seventieth
80th - eightieth
90th - ninetieth
100th - hundredth
101th - hundred and first
200th - two hundredth
300th - three hundredth
1,000th - thousandth
1,000,000th - ten millionth

The Number 0
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We normally say 'zero' for the number '0'.
BUT when we give our telephone number,
we often say O like the name of the letter O.
e.g. 505-1023 = five-O-five, one-O-two-three

Fractions and Decimals

We use ordinal numbers (at the end position) to talk about fractions.
1/2 - a half
1/3 - a third
2/3 - two thirds
1/4 - a quarter (a fourth)
3/4 - three quarters (three fourths)
1/5 - a fifth
2/5 - two fifths
1/6 - a sixth
5/6 - five sixths
1/7 - a seventh
1/8 - an eighth
1/10 - a tenth
7/10 - seven tenths
1/20 - a twentieth
47/100 - forty-seven hundredths
1/100 - a hundredth
1/1,000 - a thousandth

Notice that for 1/4, you can say a quarter OR a fourth.

IF we have a whole number with a fraction, we use the word AND between the
two parts.
e.g. 2 3/5 = two and a three-fifths
For parts of whole numbers, we use a decimal point (and NOT a comma).
e.g. 2 1/2 (two and a half) = 2.5 (two point five)
If there is more than one number after the decimal point, we say each number
individually.
e.g. 3,456.789 = three thousand, four hundred and fifty-six point seven eight
nine.
The exception to this rule is when we are talking about dollars and cents
(or pound and pence)
e.g. $21.95 = twenty-one dollars, ninety-five (cents). Saying the word cents at
the end is optional.

Cardinal numbers
------------------------379 = three hundred and seventy nine
2,860 = two thousand eight hundred and sixty
5,084 = five thousand and eighty-four
470,000 = four hundred and seventy thousand
2,550,000 = two million, five hundred and fifty
thousand
3,000,000,000 = three billion
Note: There is no plurals after hundred, thousand,
million and billion when they are part of a number.
On their own, they can be plural, e.g. thousands
of people; millions of insects.

Ordinal numbers and dates

--------------------------------------One of the problems with dates is that we write
them and say them in a different way:
We write 4 January (or 4th January), but say the
fourth of January or January the fourth.
We write 21 May (or 21st May), but say the
twenty-first of May or May the twenty-first.
1997 = nineteen ninety seven
1905 = nineteen hundred and five or nineteen
oh five

Fractions and decimals

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1 1/4 = one and a quarter
1 1/2 = one and a half
1 3/4 = one and three quarters
1 1/3 = one and a third
1.25 = one point two five
1.5 = one point five
1.75 = one point seven five
1.33 = one point three three

Percentages
-----------------26% = twenty-six per cent
More than 50% is the majority;
less than 50% is the minority.
Arithmetic
There are four basic processes for working out (= calculating) a
problem:
+ = addition e.g. 6 + 4 = 10 (six plus/and four equals/is ten)
- = subtraction e.g. 6-4 = 2 (six minus four equals/is two)
X = multiplication e.g. 6 X 4= 24 (six times / multiplied by four
equals/is twenty-four)
/ = division e.g. 4/2 = 2 (four divided by two equals/is two)

Saying 0
-------------This can be spoken in different ways in different contexts.
telephone number: 603 724 = six oh three, seven two four
(AmEng = six zero three)
mathematics: 0.7 = nought point seven, 6.02 = six point
oh two

temperature: -10 degrees = ten degrees below zero /

minus ten degrees
football: 2-0 = two nil

tennis: 40-0 = forty love

1,000,000,000 a/one billion

Note: In the past British speakers used

"billion" to mean a million million.
However, now-days they usually use it to
mean a thousand million (a milliard), like
American speakers.

Expressing Numbers in English

:: If a number is in the range 21 to 99, and

the second digit is not zero, we should
write the number as two words separated
by a hyphen:
25 twenty-five

57 fifty-seven
89 eighty-nine

:: Numbers over 100 are generally written in

figures. However if you want to say them aloud
or want to write them in words rather than
figures you put 'and' in front of the number
expressed by the last two figures. For
example:
203

two hundred and three

(AmE: two hundred three)

622

six hundred and twenty-two

(AmE: six hundred twenty-two)

:: Numbers between 1000 and 1,000,000 is usually said or

written in words as:
1,803

one thousand, eight hundred and three

(AmE: one thousand, eight hundred three)

1,963

one thousand, nine hundred and sixty-three

(AmE: one thousand, nine hundred sixty-three)

2,840

two thousand, eight hundred and forty

(AmE: two thousand, eight hundred forty)

Four-figure numbers ending in 00 can also be said or

written as a number of hundreds. For example, 1800 can
be said or written as "eighteen hundred"

:: If the number 1963 is being used to identify

something, it is said as "one nine six three".

We always say each figure separately like this

with telephone numbers. If a telephone number
contains a double number, we use the word
"double":
561 6603 five six one [pause] double six 'oh'
three (AmE: five six one [pause] six six 'oh'
three)

:: Saying years. We normally say a year in two parts. In the case

of years ending in "00", we say the second part in "hundred":
1058 ten fifty-eight
1706 seventeen hundred and six (or 'seventeen oh six')

1865 eighteen sixty-five

1900 nineteen hundred

There are two ways of saying years ending in "01" to "09"

before 2000. For example: "1901" can be said as
"nineteen oh one" or "nineteen hundred and one".
The year 2000 is read "two thousand", 2006 "two
thousand and six" (AmE: two thousand six). Post-2010
dates are often said as normal (2010 would be "twenty
ten").

:: Flight numbers. We pronounce a flight

number in two parts or digit-by-digit. For
example:

110

one ten (or 'one one oh')

1248

twelve forty-eight

2503

twenty-five oh three

3050 three oh five oh (or 'three zero five

zero', 'thirty fifty')

:: Expressing millions.
1,412,605
one million four hundred
(and) twelve thousand six hundred (and)
five
2,760,300
two million seven hundred
(and) sixty thousand three hundred
Remember: The British use 'and' before
tens and ones but the Americans usually
leave the 'and' out.

Ways of expressing the number 0

Notes:
1. We use zero to express some numerical values such as temperatures,
taxes, and interest rates.
2.
2. We can pronounce "0" like the letter "o", when we are reading out
numbers figure by figure (e. g. telephone number, flight number, credit
card number, etc.)

Writing full stops and commas in numbers

Use a full stop (.) to separate the main part of a number from
the decimal part. 3.062 means 'three point nought six two'.
Say point to refer to the full stop. You can use a comma (,) in
large numbers to separate the hundreds, thousands, and
millions. 3,062 means 'three thousand and sixty-two'. In
British English, spaces are sometimes used instead of
commas (3 062).
Remember: Speakers of some other languages use (,) and
(.) in the opposite way - the commas for the decimals and the
points for thousands, millions, etc.


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