Appendix:Swedish numerals

Numbers up to 20:

	Cardinal	Ordinal	Noun (digit, coin or rank)	Comment
0	noll	nollte	nolla	nolla = a fool, an idiot
1	ett or en	första	etta	etta = winner. See also femetta. Note: Ett is neuter, en is common gender; "the digit 1" is "siffran ett" or "en etta" in Swedish.
2	två	andra	tvåa	tvåa = runner-up; one bedroom apartment (counting the living room as the 2nd room)
3	tre	tredje	trea
4	fyra	fjärde	fyra	Especially when counting, fyra is often pronounced as fyr.
5	fem	femte	femma	femma = five crown coin (or bill)
6	sex	sjätte	sexa
7	sju	sjunde	sjua
8	åtta	åttonde	åtta	åtta = an eight, as in figure skating. See also nollåtta
9	nio	nionde	nia	Nio is commonly pronounced as nie.
10	tio	tionde	tia	tia = ten crown coin (or bill). Tio is commonly pronounced as tie.
11	elva	elfte	elva	elva = a soccer team
12	tolv	tolfte	tolva	See also bluestolva
13	tretton	trettonde
14	fjorton	fjortonde
15	femton	femtonde
16	sexton	sextonde
17	sjutton	sjuttonde
18	arton	artonde
19	nitton	nittonde
20	tjugo	tjugonde	tjuga	Tjugo is usually pronounced tjugi.

Multiples of 10:

Cardinal	Ordinal	English	Comment
tio	tionde	ten
tjugo	tjugonde	twenty	Tjugo is usually pronounced tjugi. For cardinal numbers between 21 and 29, tjugo is commonly pronounced as tju, e.g. tjuåtta for 28.
trettio	trettionde	thirty
fyrtio	fyrtionde	forty	Fyrtio is pronounced as förti and sometimes written as förtio.
femtio	femtionde	fifty
sextio	sextionde	sixty
sjuttio	sjuttionde	seventy
åttio	åttionde	eighty
nittio	nittionde	ninety
etthundra	hundrade	one hundred	One commonly only says etthundra to distinguish it from e.g. tvåhundra.
etttusen	tusende	one thousand
en miljon	miljonte	one million
en miljard	miljarte	one billion
en biljon	biljonte	one trillion
en triljon	triljonte	one quintillion

Numbers are made up like in English: 55 is femtiofem, 73rd is sjuttiotredje. The -tio ending is commonly pronounced as -ti for the cardinal numbers (but not for the ordinal numbers). Swedish uses the long scale, that is it uses same system for large numbers as British English, not American English.

Playing cards

Playing cards in Swedish · kort (layout · text)
ess, äss	tvåa, två	trea, tre	fyra	femma, fem	sexa, sex	sjua, sju
åtta	nia, nio	tia, tio	knekt	dam, drottning	kung	joker

See also

• Appendix:Danish numerals
• Appendix:Räkneord (Swedish numbers compared to other languages)

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