Numbers in Brithenig
1 | yn | 6 | sei | 11 | ynniġ | 16 | yn e chindiġ |
2 | dew | 7 | seth | 12 | dewddiġ | 17 | dew e chinniġ |
3 | trui | 8 | oeth | 13 | truiddiġ | 18 | dewnoe |
4 | cathr | 9 | noe | 14 | cathorddiġ | 19 | cathr e chinniġ |
5 | cinc | 10 | deġ | 15 | kinniġ | 20 | gweint |
21 | yn e weint | ||||||
30 | deġ e weint | 40 | dew weint | ||||
50 | deġ e ddew weint | 60 | trui weint | ||||
70 | deġ e thrui weint | 80 | cathr gweint | ||||
90 | deġ e chathr gweint | 100 | cent | ||||
1000 | mil | 1000000 | milliwn | ||||
0 | sero, rhen | . | puith |
Numbers precede the noun being counted. Yn causes feminine nouns to soften; dew, trui and sei cause following nouns to undergo spirant mutation; other numbers come before nouns without causing mutation. When the noun following dew and trui is a feminine collective of a masculine noun (see above under nouns) then the noun undergoes soft mutation rather than spirant mutation.
Before a noun cinc, gweint and cent become cin, gwein and cen. The noun being counted is always singular.
Big numbers are put before nouns in two different ways:
yn of e chinniġ, sixteen men
yn e chinniġ di llo h-of, sixteen (of the) men
Ordinal numbers exist for one to ten:
1st | prif | 6th | seist |
2nd | segun | 7th | sethif |
3rd | terth | 8th | oethif |
4th | carth | 9th | noef |
5th | kint | 10th | degif |
In shorthand these are reduced to the number and the last two letters of the ordinal spelling.
'Once, twice, three times' are made with using the cardinal number with the noun gweġ: yn weġ, dew weġ, trui weġ, cathr gweġ.