Demonstration: Cardinal Numbers
| As an early demonstration of the translation system, this page allows numbers to be
translated into a variety of different languages.
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| Language: | |
| Values: | from in steps of |
| Result: | | 0: | zero
| | 1: | one
| | 2: | two
| | 3: | three
| | 4: | four
| | 5: | five
| | 6: | six
| | 7: | seven
| | 8: | eight
| | 9: | nine
| | 10: | ten
| | 11: | eleven
| | 12: | twelve
| | 13: | thirteen
| | 14: | fourteen
| | 15: | fifteen
| | 16: | sixteen
| | 17: | seventeen
| | 18: | eighteen
| | 19: | nineteen
| | 20: | twenty
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| Notes: |
- For English, Portuguese and Norwegian read British English, European
Portuguese and Bokmål.
- Currently the smallest supported number is 0 and the largest
(in most but not all cases) is 999,999,999,999,999 (1015-1).
- Numbers inflect in some languages according to what is being counted.
Support for such inflection is currently patchy, and this demonstration
does not asttempt to illustrate it. What should appear is the 'default'
form of the number, that is, the one that would be used for counting in
the abstract.
- There are several languages where forms such as 'eleven hundred' are
preferable to 'one thousand one hundred'. The ability to do this has only
recently been implemented and the migration is not fully complete.
- I intend to revisit the question of whether it is preferable, in a
given language, to say 'one hundred', 'a hundred' or just 'hundred'.
My belief is that the forms currently generated are acceptable, but not
necessarily optimal or consistent. I would be grateful for external
input on this point.
- The addition of commas may be desirable in some languages, but this
nas not yet been implememented.
- More languages will follow. Please note, however, that I will not
necessarily be able to fully support such a large number of languages
as I expand into other areas of vocabulary.
- Please report any errors that you find. Many of these languages
have been implemented according to incomplete, ambiguous or contradictory
grammatical descriptions, and I would be very surprised if no errors
have been made.
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