Modern Greek Grammar

Konstantinos Athanasiou

11. Numerals /
Numerals may indicate a number, quantity, a position in a series. They may be divided into cardinal,
ordinal, multiplicative, relative and collective numerals. The following table shows the most common,
the cardinal and the ordinal numerals.
Cardinal numerals /
Ordinal numerals /
0

1
, ,

2

3
, ,

4
, ,

5

10

11

12

13
, ,

20

30

40

50

60

70

80

90

100
200
300
400
500
600
700
800
900

1000
2000

1.000.000

1.000.000.000

The neuter form of the cardinal numbers is used for counting.
Attention: The cardinal numerals 13-19 are written in one word: , .
Numeral combinations with the adjective (half) are written in the ending with an - when the
numerals , are used and in all other cases with an -, for example:
(masculine) (one and a half month)
(one and a half min)
(feminine) (one and a half hour)
(two and a half hours)
/ (three and a half hours/months) but (three and a half min)
/ (four and a half hours/months) but (four and a half
min)
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Modern Greek Grammar

Konstantinos Athanasiou

Telling the time: / / from 2-12 , etc (at one oclock / at half
past one / at two oclock, at three oclock etc)
Stating ages: / (31 / 33 years old), the declinable numerals are used in the
genitive when ages are stated, see 11.1 below for the declinable numerals.
11.1 Declension of cardinal numerals
The following cardinal numerals decline and agree in gender and case with the noun they refer to:
1
Singular
Cases
Masculine
Feminine
Neuter
nom

gen

acc
()
,

3
Plural
Cases
Masculine and feminine Neuter
nom

gen

acc

4
Plural
Cases
Masculine and feminine Neuter
nom

gen

acc

Numerals combined with one of the above mentioned numerals decline the same way as well, for
example:
13, 14, 21, 23, 24 etc.
The numerals from , , (200) until , , (1000) follow
the declensional pattern of adjectives ending in -, -, - in the plural number and agree in gender and
case with the noun they refer to:
Plural
Cases
Masculine
Feminine
Neuter
nom

gen

acc

The numerals , (2) and from (5) until (100) do not decline except numerals
combined with the numerals one, three, four, as said above.

one pupil
one woman
three men
nine men
one oclock

two pupils
one child
four children
thousand women

11.2 Declension of ordinal numerals

All ordinal numerals follow the declensional pattern of adjectives ending in -, -, - and agree in
gender, number and case with the noun they refer to.

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