Turkish Numbers 1–100: How to Count and Form Numbers

Numbers from 1 to 10 in Turkish

When a noun is used with a numeral, the plural suffix is not added.

• beş kedi — five cats
• üç araba — three cars
• iki papağan — two parrots
• bir şemsiye — one umbrella
• on kitap — ten books
• dört ağaç — four trees
• iki ev — two houses
• yedi lale — seven tulips

To form cardinal numbers from 10 to 20, the required digit is added to the number “ten” (on).

• 11 – on bir
• 14 – on dört
• 12 – on iki
• 19 – on dokuz

Zero, one hundred, one thousand, one million

• 0 – sıfır
• 100 – yüz
• 1000 – bin
• 10.000 – on bin
• 100.000 – yüz bin
• 1000000 – bir milyon
• 1.000.000.000 bir milyar

Cardinal Numbers (20–100)

• on beş jilet — fifteen blades
• on dokuz kedi — nineteen cats
• on üç araba — thirteen cars
• numara on sekiz — number eighteen
• on yedi tane — seventeen pieces
• elli iki zarf — fifty-two envelopes
• yirmi üç şemsiye — twenty-three umbrellas
• kırk dört öküz — forty-four oxen
• yetmiş dokuz lale — seventy-nine tulips
• seksen bir kilo — eighty-one kilograms
• doksan beş iğne — ninety-five needles

Compound Numerals

In Turkish, cardinal numbers denoting several hundreds are formed according to the formula: units + yüz.

200 – iki yüz
300 – üç yüz

When forming a compound number, all place values are listed sequentially, starting with the highest.

328 – üç yüz yirmi sekiz
757 – yedi yüz elli yedi
214 – iki yüz on dört
1415 – bin dört yüz on beş