Kedshi Numbers
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Basically, how to form numbers in Kedshi.
This public article was written by [Deactivated User] on 15 Feb 2020, 02:46.
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1. A Guide to Kedshi
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3. Kedshi Numbers
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Kedshi is a base 10 language, like English.However, it forms numbers a bit differently than English does.
On top of this, numbers experience phonetic changes due to vowel harmony, and numbers must agree to case (but this is a topic for another article).
Any number can have an ordinal prefix, ҵ(о/ӧ)-.
Things are pretty straightforward for numbers 1-10.
| 1 | дояц |
| 2 | ези |
| 3 | ӧп |
| 4 | убе |
| 5 | äљв |
| 6 | äљт |
| 7 | ҏат |
| 8 | ха |
| 9 | фӧтэ |
| 10 | юс |
However, let's say you wanted to say "twelve," and in that case, you would say "юсрези."
This number contains ten, "юс," the word for "and," "р," and two, "ези."
So, "twelve" is literally "ten and two."
To add a number to 10 and any multiples of 10, you simply say "and (number)."
For example:
14 - юсрубе (ten and four)
16 - юсраљт (ten and six) (notice the vowel harmony here that changes äљт to аљт)
19 - юсрфотэ (ten and nine) (notice the vowel harmony here, too, changing фӧтэ to фотэ)
However, what if I wanted to make a multiple of ten?
Well, you put a number in front of юс, but you dont add "and."
So, twenty is юсези, or, "ten-two."
Here's a few other examples:
40 - юсубе (ten-four)
60 - юсаљт (ten-six) (vowel harmony persists here, as with any compound kedshi word, keep this in mind and pay attention to it)
90 - юсфотэ (ten-nine)
| 10 | юс |
| 20 | юсези |
| 30 | юсоп |
| 40 | юсубе |
| 50 | юсаљв |
| 60 | юсаљт |
| 70 | юсҏат |
| 80 | юсха |
| 90 | юсфотэ |
| 100 | пӧчи |
Now, what if I want to combine these two?
Well, it's more simple than you think.
Just take the multiple of ten, and add "and (number)" again.
So, forty-six is "юсубераљт," or, "ten-four and six."
Other examples:
69 - юсаљтрфотэ (ten-six and nine) (im absolutely fucking hysterical i know)
73 - юсҏатроп (ten-seven and three)
Are you starting to see a pattern here?
If so, good, because this type of pattern persists onto multiples of a hundred (пӧчи), a thousand (пӧым), a million (пӧымэ), and so on.
182 - пӧчирөсхäрези (hundred and ten-eight and two)
5834 - пӧымäљврпӧчихäрөсӧпрӱбе (thousand-five and hundred-eight and ten-three and four)
3995215 - пӧымэмӧпрпӧымпӧчифӧтэрөсфӧтэрäљврпӧчезирөсрäљв (million-three and thousand-hundred-nine and ten-nine and five and hundred-two and ten and five)
As you can see, it can make some... pretty big words.
Luckily for you, it's acceptable in Kedshi to just write the digits, so no real need to write big words unless you really want to. ✎ Edit Article ✖ Delete Article
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