Numbers Demonstrative adjectives Demonstrative pronouns
Saeed Yousef, Hayedeh Torabi · 2020
When written as numerals, numbers are written from left to right (as in English) — even when written in the middle of a text that is normally written from right to left. Cardinal numbers are those that tell how many. The following are the Persian cardinal numbers from 1 to 1001. The sign for zero is not much different from the punctuation mark period , which can sometimes be confusing. This chapter lists out three simple rules for using numbers with nouns: nouns always come after numbers; nouns always remain singular after numbers, even though, with numbers above 1, the meaning is plural; the verb must also be plural for animates, but it can remain singular for inanimates. Persian has two slightly different suffixes for ordinal numbers, which are used in different ways. Modern Iran has adopted the metric system, borrowing many measure words from French.