Brojevi

Brojeve (numbers) koristimo neposredno ispred brojivih imenica kako bismo točno odredili njihov broj.

Ove brojeve koristimo kako bismo odredili točan broj nečega:

one, two, five, hundred, two thousand …

Kardinalne brojeve u rečenici možemo kombinirati s članovima a/an i the te posvojnim oblicima kao što su my ili your.

She has one horse, two sheep and ten rabbits on her farm.

My two best friends are Alex and Monica.

Five of his friends graduated high school.

Kada pričamo o velikim, neodređenim količinama, koristimo izraze poput hundreds (of), millions (of), billions (of)...

There are billions of people in the world.

Millions of people live in poverty.

Ove brojeve koristimo kada pričamo o datumima i redoslijedu.

1st (first), 2nd (second), 3rd (third), 4th (fourth), 5th (fifth), 6th (sixth), 7th (seventh), 8th (eighth), 9th (ninth), 10th (tenth) ...

I was born on the fifth/5th of May.

She won second/2nd place in the race.