User:Robbiemuffin/Kreyol/Chapter 3/Number

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=Numbers=

The first number, zero, is zewo. It is not part of the base 16.

In english, we have a base 12 number system: the first twelve numbers are unique. After that, it becomes a sort of ten+ number, util twenty (thir+teen, four+teen...). Then, going up by tens, twenty, thirty fourty, etc, in a base 10 fashion (22 = twenty+two, 49= fourty+nine).

Kreyòl uses a system like French: it is base 16 at the start, but it becomes more complicated from there. It rises in a base ten fashion until the 60s, then becomes quasi base 60 (70 = 60 and 10, 80 = four 20s, 90 = four 20s and 10) until 100. The 100s, thousands, and higher columns revert to a base 10 multiplicative system (800 = 8 100s, 2000 = 2 1000s).

From here on, to make an ordinal from a cardinal add -yèm to it. Only exceptions are lsited in the table above.

From there it continues 17-19 as 10+n:

From 20-29 you can work out how single-digit numbers are added to the tens column:

The remeaining tens numbers to 60 are:

From here to 100, they become quasi-base 60 numbers:

For the hundreds, numbers are multiplied against the hundreds column: 200 = de san.
 * 100 san

For the thousands, the count system begins again as at 1. 5,000 = senk mil, but 10,000 = di mil, 100,000 = san mil.
 * 1,000 mil

The higher order numbers use the million and billion familiar to english speakers, no those familiar to french:
 * 1,000,000 = milyon
 * 1,000,000,000 = bilyon

missing: multiplicative names (once, twice), partitive names (half, third, quarter)

=Time=


 * Ki lè li ye? = What time is it?
 * Li inè. = It's 1:00.

time words are like the cardinal words, but with è at the end: ...
 * 1:00 = inè
 * 2:00 = dezè
 * 3:00 = twazè
 * 4:00 = katrè
 * 11:00 = onzè
 * 12:00 = douzè

=Date=