{"id":9602,"date":"2024-01-12T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-12T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/?p=9602"},"modified":"2025-02-20T16:14:52","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20T16:14:52","slug":"how-to-count-to-20-in-romanian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/how-to-count-to-20-in-romanian\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Count to 20 in Romanian"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Do you know how to count to 20 in Romanian? No? Well, let’s begin! Plus, find out where all those numbers come from and which languages Romanian is most closely related to.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

First things first, are you up to speed with the historical reference in the name ‘Romanian’? The language \u2013 and the country where it’s spoken, Romania \u2013 are both so named because of their links to the former Roman Empire. Exactly<\/em> why is up for debate, but it seems likely to be related to the fact that the Roman Empire included part of modern-day Romania and people in that region spoke an ordinary type of Latin called ‘Latin Romanicus’.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why is this relevant? Well, it was ‘Latin Romanicus’ that gave rise to the term ‘Romance languages’ \u2013 languages derived from ordinary Latin \u2013 and knowing about Romance languages is important for understanding this post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With us so far? Awesome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, when we hear people talking about Romance languages, French<\/a>, Spanish<\/a>, and Italian<\/a> are usually the ones that crop up the most. Of course, there are many more than that \u2013 Portuguese<\/a>, Catalan<\/a>, and Sicilian<\/a> are just three more languages that are descended from Latin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Romanian is another. (Yes, we know you saw that coming!) Although Romanian has been influenced by the Slavic languages surrounding it, it is still more closely related to its Romance cousins, as should become clear as we start learning the numbers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let’s get started!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The numbers 0 \u2013 10<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Here are the Romanian numbers 0 \u2013 10:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Romanian<\/th>Number<\/th>Notes<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>
zero<\/td>0<\/td><\/td><\/tr>
unu<\/td>1<\/td>inherited from Latin \u016bnus<\/em>, from Old Latin oinos<\/em>, originally from Proto-Indo-European *\u00f3ynos<\/em> (one, single)<\/td><\/tr>
doi<\/td>2<\/td>from Vulgar Latin *du\u012b<\/em> (“two”, root), from Latin duo<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
trei<\/td>3<\/td>inherited from Latin tr\u0113s,<\/em> from Proto-Indo-European *tr\u00e9yes<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
patru<\/td>4<\/td>inherited from Latin quattour<\/em>, from Proto-Indo-European *k\u02b7etw\u00f3res<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
cinci<\/td>5<\/td>inherited from Vulgar Latin c\u012bnque<\/em>, from Latin qu\u012bnque<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
\u015fase<\/td>6<\/td>inherited from Latin sex<\/em>, from Proto-Indo-European *sw\u00e9ks<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
\u015fapte<\/td>7<\/td>inherited from Latin septem<\/em>, from Proto-Indo-European *sept\u1e3f\u0325<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
opt<\/td>8<\/td>inherited from Latin oct\u014d<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
nou\u0103<\/td>9<\/td>inherited from Latin novem<\/em><\/td><\/tr>
zece<\/td>10<\/td>inherited from Latin decem<\/em><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The numbers 11 \u2013 20<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The numbers 11 \u2013 20 are mainly made by taking the numbers in the above table (1 \u2013 9) and adding -sprezece<\/em> to the end. -Sprezece<\/em> is made up of spre<\/em> + zece<\/em> and literally means ‘to ten’.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This isn’t a form you’ll tend to see in other Romance languages. That’s because it was influenced by Romanian’s neighbouring languages like Albanian and Old Church Slavonic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Romanian<\/th>English<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>
unsprezece<\/td>eleven<\/td><\/tr>
doisprezece<\/td>twelve<\/td><\/tr>
treisprezece<\/td>thirteen<\/td><\/tr>
paisprezece<\/td>fourteen<\/td><\/tr>
cincisprezece<\/td>fifteen<\/td><\/tr>
\u015faisprezece<\/td>sixteen<\/td><\/tr>
\u015faptesprezece<\/td>seventeen<\/td><\/tr>
optsprezece<\/td>eighteen<\/td><\/tr>
nou\u0103sprezece<\/td>nineteen<\/td><\/tr>
dou\u0103zeci<\/td>twenty<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Oh, but what about the word for 20? Dou\u0103zeci<\/em> is made up of two parts \u2013 dou\u0103<\/em>, the feminine form of ‘two’ and zeci<\/em>, a plural form meaning ‘tens’. So the word literally means ‘two tens’.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Learn your numbers with uTalk<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

You can find full audio for the numbers in this post in the uTalk app, and you can learn them there, too, by playing games and having fun!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Want to learn more numbers? As well as our Numbers up to Twenty topic, our app also has a topic (in every language) called Numbers up to Ten Million. We don’t list every single<\/em> number \u2013 how could we? \u2013 but you’ll learn how to form the numbers intuitively through exposure in the Phrase Practice section and the various games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Start learning with uTalk today. Download our app for free, and when you want to subscribe, you can get started\u00a0with 40% off your next subscription.<\/a>\u00a0Happy language learning!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Do you know how to count to 20 in Romanian? No? Well, let’s begin! Plus, find out where all those numbers come from and which languages Romanian is most closely related to. First things first, are you up to speed with the historical reference in the name ‘Romanian’? The language \u2013 and the country where … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9603,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[150],"tags":[316],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9602"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9602"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9605,"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9602\/revisions\/9605"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}