Lesson 5 Numbers (1-9)

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A second reading (by Muhammad Nor Ismat, a native speaker)

Satu dua tiga
Empat lima enam
Tujuh lapan sembilan
Kosong
Apa nombor telefon anda?

one two three
four five six
seven eight nine
zero
What is your telephone number? .

Vocabulary
satu = 1, dua= 2
tiga = 3, empat = 4
lima = 5, enam = 6
tujuh = 7, lapan = 8
sembilan = 9, kosong = zero
nombor telefon = telephone number

For those who want to know more:
Note that the adjective always comes after the noun in Malay. Thus "telephone number" is translated as nombor telefon.
Once you are clear about this it is easy to understand why "your telephone number" becomes nombor telefon anda.
Learn the Malay words for 1 to 9 to perfection as you only need to know five more words (belas, puluh, ratus, ribu, juta ) to be able to read any number at all in Malay. More of this later (in Lessons 8 and 22).
The word for "zero" is kosong. It is often used for games results and for telephone numbers.
Thus Kami menang tiga kosong means "We won 3-0".
The telephone number 041695827 is read as kosong empat satu enam sembilan lima lapan dua tujuh.
In this connection a useful sentence to learn (yes it's always good to read out the telephone number a second time) is:
Saya akan baca sekali lagi. (I will read it again).
Could I introduce ordinal numbers at this stage?
In English we would say "first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth."
In Malay it's yang pertama, yang kedua, yang ketiga, yang keempat, yang kelima, yang keenam, yang ketujuh, yang kelapan and yang kesembilan.
What do you notice? Yes, I'm sure you would have noticed that all of them (except for "first") start with yang ke followed by the number in question. Quite simple, isn't it?
Okay, let's see it in practice:
You know that Fatimah has got 3 brothers and 4 sisters and you want to know where she is situated. You would ask her Fatimah anak yang keberapa?
And if she is the sixth of the eight siblings she would reply Saya anak yang keenam.

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