Hello Readers of Learn Words, today we are going to learn some numbers in Standard Arabic. In this article we are going to focus on numbers not on their declines, rather we are going to learn it in the way that many Arabic books teach, and along with it the numbers we are used to and the number in Arabic.
In this first article we will learn the numbers from 0 to 20.
| Numbers | Name numbers in Arabic | Arabic numbers |
| 0 | صفر (Sifr) | ٠ |
| 1 | واحِدٌ (Wahed) | ١ |
| 2 | إثْنانِ (Ithnan) | ٢ |
| 3 | ثَلاثَةٌ (Thalatha) | ٣ |
| 4 | أَرْبَعةٌ (Arba´A) | ٤ |
| 5 | خَمْسةٌ (Khamsa) | ٥ |
| 6 |
سِتّةٌ (Sitta) |
٦ |
| 7 | سَبْعةٌ (Saba´A) | ٧ |
| 8 | ثَمانِيةٌ (Thamaniya) | ٨ |
| 9 | تِسْعةٌ (Tisa´A) | ٩ |
| 10 | عَشرَةٌ (´Aashra) | ١٠ |
| 11 | أحَدَ عَشَرَ (Ahda ´Ashara) | ١١ |
| 12 | إثْنا عَشَرَ (Ithna ´Ashara) | ١٢ |
| 13 | ثلاثةَ عَشَرَ (Thalatha ´Ashara) | ١٣ |
| 14 | أَرْبَعةَ عَشَرَ (Arba´A ´Ashara) | ١٤ |
| 15 | خَمْسةَ عَشَرَ (Khamsa ´Ashara) | ١٥ |
| 16 | سِتّةَ عَشَرَ (Sitta ´Ashara) | ١٦ |
| 17 | سَبْعةَ عَشَرَ (Saba´a ´Ashara) | ١٧ |
| 18 | ثَمانيةَ عَشَرَ (Thamania ´Ashara) | ١٨ |
| 19 | تِسْعةَ عَشَرَ (Tisa´A ´Ashara) | ١٩ |
| 20 | عِشْرونَ (´Aishuruna) | ٢٠ |
Maybe you are wondering, is it really that the Arabic numbers are like that ???
Arabic clock
We saw that even knowing the numbers is important in Arabic, because the numbers they use are different from ours. To finish, let's leave a video with the pronunciations:
