Monday, May 25, 2020

Numbers in Sinhala: Part 2 (Ordinal Numbers)

Ayubowan!
Today’s vocabulary list is going to be a quick one going over the 
ordinal numbers 1-20. You can use these to express the order of something. 
For example:


I am the second oldest daughter.
Mama devæni duwa.
මම දෙවැනි දූව.

First
පලමු
palamu
Second
දෙවැනි
devæni
Third
තුන්වන
thunvana
Fourth
හතරවන
hatharavana
Fifth
පස්වන
pasvana
Sixth
හය වන
hayavana
Seventh
හත්වන
hathvana
Eighth
අටවන
atavana
Ninth
නවවන
navavana
Tenth
දහවන
dahavana

Eleventh
එකොළොස්වැන්න
ekolosvænna
Twelveth
දොළොස්වන
dolosvana
Thirteenth
දහතුන්වන
dahathunvana
Fourteenth
දහහතරවන
dahahatharavana
Fifteenth
පහළොස්වන
pahalosvana
Sixteenth
දහසයවන
dahasayavana
Seventeenth
දහහත්වන
dahahathvana
Eighteenth
දහඅටවන
dahaathavana
NIneteenth
දහනව වන
dahanava vana
Twentieth
විසිවන
visivana


That’s it for this lesson! If you have any comments or questions, please 
leave them down below. Tune in for the next lesson on June 8th. Thank you for reading!

Sunday, May 17, 2020

Numbers in Sinhala: Part 1

Ayubowan!

This week’s lesson will be the first part of a series dealing with numbers.
Today we will start from the very basics and learn how to count from zero to
one-hundred.


0
බිංදුව
binduva
1
එක
eka
2
දෙක
deka
3
තුන
thuna
4
හතර
hathara
5
පහ
paha
6
හය
haya
7
හත
hatha
8
අට
ata
9
නමය/නවය
namaya/navaya
10
දහය
dahaya
11
එකොළහ
ekolaha
12
දළහ
dolaha
13
දහතුන
dahathuna
14
දහහතර
dahahathara
15
පහළොව
pahaḷova
16
දහසය
dahasaya
17
දහහත
dahahata
18
දහඅටයි
dahaatha
19
දහනවවන
dahanava vana

As you might have noticed, there are two forms of nine that you can use. Namaya is more casual, while Navaya is something you would use in a formal situation. 

Once you learn 20-29, you can apply this pattern to numbers all the way to 99.


20
විස්ස
vissa
21
විසි එක
vis eka
22
විසි දෙක
vis deka
23
විසි තුන
vis thuna
24
විසි හතර
vis hathara
25
විසිපහ
vis paha
26
විසි හය
vis haya
27
විසි හත
vis hatha
28
විසි අට
vis ata
29
විසි නවය/විසි නමය
vis namaya/navaya



30
තිහ
thiha
31
තිස් එකකි
this eka


40
හතළිහ
hathaliha
41
හතලිස් එක
hathalis eka


50
පනහ
panaha
51
පනස් එක
panas eka


60
හැට
hæta
61
හැට එක
hæta eka


70
හැත්තෑ
hættǣ
71
හැත්තෑ එක
hættǣ eka


80
අසූව
asuuva
81
අසූ එක
asu eka


90
අනූවකි
anuvaki
91
අනූ එක
anu eka
100
සියය
siyaya

That is all for this lesson! If you have any questions or comments, please leave them down
below. Make sure to tune into next week’s lesson on May 25th. 

Thank you for reading!

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