Numbers can act as nouns, standing on their own as subjects or objects, or modifying another noun directly.

Numbers as Standalone Nouns

• mulegh cha' - Two (of them) see me.

• wa' yIHoH - Kill one (of them)! (The prefix yI- already means a singular object; wa' adds emphasis.)

Numbers Modifying Nouns (Counting)

When numbers are counting objects, they come before the noun they describe. Plural suffixes like -pu' or -mey aren't required when using a number:

• loS puqpu' or loS puq - four children

• vaghmaH yuQmey or vaghmaH yuQ - fifty planets

Numbering Objects

When assigning a number to something (like labeling), the number follows the noun:

• DuS wa' - torpedo tube number 1

Ordinal Numbers (first, second, third…)

Ordinal numbers are created by adding -DIch to regular numbers, and they follow the noun:

• wa'DIch - first

• cha'DIch - second

• HutDIch - ninth

• meb cha'DIch - second guest

Repeating Actions (once, twice…)

Add the suffix -logh to show how many times an action occurs. These words function as adverbials, occuring at the beginning of the sentence:

• wa'logh - once

• cha'logh - twice

• Hutlogh - nine times

• wejmaH Sochlogh - thirty seven times

To say that an action has happened "many times" or "repeatedly", use the word pIj ("often"). For extra emphasis, repeat the verb using 'ej ("and") and -qa' ("again"):

• qagh vISoppu' 'ej vISopqa'pu' 'ej vISopqa'pu' - I've eaten gagh many times. (I've eaten gagh and I've eaten it again and I've eaten it again)

To say that an action has been repeated a number of times during a group of attempts use pe''egh "cut onself" and nID "try":

• loSlogh pe''egh; vaghlogh nID - tried four out of five times (cut oneself four times; tried five times)

This construction is used even if the person stopped after the fourth try and didn't try a fifth time.

Spans, # or more, and # or less

When talking about if a group of things has more than a number and/or less than a number in it, or when talking about numbered things being between spans of numbers, use rav minimum and 'aqroS maximum:

• patlh 'aqroS wej - level 3 or less

• 'aqroS wej vIghro' - no more than three cats, three or less cats

• Su'roq rav chorgh - floor 8 or greater

• rav wej vIghro' - at least three cats, three or more cats

These can be combined to talk about spans:

• rav cha' 'ujmey 'aqroS loS 'ujmey 'ab - has a length between two and four ujes

• rav wej vIghro' 'aqroS jav vIghro' vIlegh - I see between three and six cats

• Su'roq rav wej Su'roq 'aqroS vagh yI'elQo' - Don't enter floors three to five