Numbers 11–100
സംഖ്യകൾ 11–100
French numbers regain the transparency Malayalam had the whole time from 17 onward — right before a strange base-20 detour that Malayalam has no equivalent of.
Grammar Comparison
വ്യാകരണ താരതമ്യം
17–19: transparent again, after 11–16's exception
dix-sept, dix-huit, dix-neuf — literally 'ten-seven', 'ten-eight', 'ten-nine'
പതിനേഴ്, പതിനെട്ട്, പതിനൊമ്പത് — 'ten' plus the unit, exactly like every teen before it
After the opaque onze–seize (11–16) you met earlier, French numbers become transparent again from 17: dix-sept visibly contains dix (ten) plus sept (seven). This matches what Malayalam has done consistently since eleven — no exception, no memorizing needed here.
80 and 90: a base-20 detour with no Malayalam equivalent
quatre-vingts (80, literally 'four-twenties'), quatre-vingt-dix (90, literally 'four-twenty-ten')
എൺപത്, തൊണ്ണൂറ് — each is its own single decade word, built purely on base-10 the whole way
French counts 80 as 'four twenties' and 90 as 'four-twenty-ten' — a leftover from an older counting system based on twenties instead of tens. Malayalam has nothing like this: എൺപത് (80) and തൊണ്ണൂറ് (90) are each their own decade word, following the same simple base-10 pattern as every other decade. Treat 80 and 90 as their own irregular pocket to memorize in French.
Vocabulary
വാക്കുകൾ
- Malayalam
- പതിനേഴ്pathinezhu
- English
- seventeen
- Malayalam
- പതിനെട്ട്pathinettu
- English
- eighteen
- Malayalam
- ഇരുപത്irupathu
- English
- twenty
- Malayalam
- മുപ്പത്muppathu
- English
- thirty
- Malayalam
- നാൽപത്naalpathu
- English
- forty
- Malayalam
- അമ്പത്ambathu
- English
- fifty
- Malayalam
- അറുപത്arupathu
- English
- sixty
- Malayalam
- എൺപത്enpathu
- English
- eighty
- Malayalam
- തൊണ്ണൂറ്thonnooru
- English
- ninety
- Malayalam
- നൂറ്nooru
- English
- one hundred