Lesson03

Lesson Three: Advanced numbers, Plurals, and Interrogatives

Numbers
Here is a list of more advanced numbers; thorty1 thirty fowerty forty feefty fifty saxty sixty sivvinty seventy hitey eighty

hunner hundred thoosan thousand

Ordinal, Cardinal
Numbers like "yen", "twee", and "three" are cardinal numbers, and that means that they are a generalized kind of number used to denote the size of a set. That's what you've learned so far. Ordinal numbers, however are another type of number used to accommodate infinite sequences and to classify sets with certain kinds of order structures on them. In English, Cardinal numbers would be "first", "second", and "third", though most numbers have "-th" added to them. In Northumbrian, you generally add a "-t" to the end of the word, like so.
 * Northumbrian: sicint, fowert, fift, sixt, sivvint.
 * English: second, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh.

Notice how "first" and "third" weren't included in that list. That's because they are irregular like in English. In Northumbrian, "first" is "forst", or sometimes "foremyest", and "third" is "thrid" or "thord".

Plural form
Plural is when the word becomes more than one. In English, the plural form is usually "-(e)s". In Northumbrian, nouns usually form their plural by adding "-(e)s" to the end of a word, but some irregular plurals occur. For example; "ee"/"een" ("eye"/"eyes"), "eear"/"eear" ("year"/"years"), "hoos"/"hoosen" ("house"/"houses"), "coo"/"kye" ("cow"/"cows"), "shough"/"shoon" ("shoe"/"shoes"). Nouns of measure and quantity unchanged in the plural. Words include, "fower feut" ("four feet"), "twee mile" ("two miles"), "feev pund" ("five pounds"), "three hunnerweight" ("three hundredweight"). Regular plurals include "loafs" ("loaves"), "mooths" ("mouthes"), "shelfs" ("shelves") and "wifes" ("wives"), etc.

Interrogatives

 * whee who
 * whaat what
 * hoo how
 * whaatfor why
 * whilk which
 * whar where
 * whan when

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