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Cardinal numbers

Cardinal numbers are the numbers one, two, three, four and so on, and are used to answer the question:- How many?

The majority do not decline - apart from one, two, three, 200, 300, 400, 500, 600, 700, 800, 900 and 1000 (which declines in the plural).

one unus
two duo
three tres
four quattuor
five quinque
six sex
seven septem
eight octo
nine novem
ten decem
eleven undecim
twelve duodecim
thirteen tredecim
fourteen quattuordecim
fifteen quindecim
sixteen sedecim
seventeen septendecim
eighteen duedeveginti
nineteen uneviginti
twenty viginti
thirty triginta
forty quadraginta
fifty quinquaginta
sixty sexaginta
seventy septuaginta
eighty octoginta
ninety nonaginta