Everyday Turkish Beginner · A1
Turkish Numbers: Count from 0 to 100 and Beyond
Learn Turkish numbers from 0 to 100, build larger numbers, read prices and practise phone digits with clear tables and exercises with answers.
Turkish numbers become much easier once you recognize the pattern: say the larger part first, then the smaller part. Twenty-three is yirmi üç, literally “twenty three.” Start with the basic words below, then use them for quantities, prices and short number sequences.
1. Turkish numbers from 0 to 10
| Number | Turkish |
|---|---|
| 0 | sıfır |
| 1 | bir |
| 2 | iki |
| 3 | üç |
| 4 | dört |
| 5 | beş |
| 6 | altı |
| 7 | yedi |
| 8 | sekiz |
| 9 | dokuz |
| 10 | on |
Keep the Turkish letters: sıfır and altı contain dotless ı; iki contains dotted i. Dört has ö, and üç has ü and ç. Practise with audio before counting quickly.
Count five objects, then start from a different number. Shuffle written digits and say each independently so that you can recognize a number without counting up to it.
Use the Turkish pronunciation guide to practise ı, ö, ü and ç.
2. Numbers from 11 to 20
| Number | Turkish |
|---|---|
| 11 | on bir |
| 12 | on iki |
| 13 | on üç |
| 14 | on dört |
| 15 | on beş |
| 16 | on altı |
| 17 | on yedi |
| 18 | on sekiz |
| 19 | on dokuz |
| 20 | yirmi |
Turkish has no separate “eleven” or “twelve” word: on bir and on iki follow the regular pattern. Write the parts separately. Practise contrasting single digits and teens: üç, on üç; sekiz, on sekiz.
3. Learn the tens to count to 100
| Number | Turkish |
|---|---|
| 10 | on |
| 20 | yirmi |
| 30 | otuz |
| 40 | kırk |
| 50 | elli |
| 60 | altmış |
| 70 | yetmiş |
| 80 | seksen |
| 90 | doksan |
| 100 | yüz |
Say the tens first and the units second: 28 is yirmi sekiz, 43 is kırk üç and 76 is yetmiş altı. Use no ve (“and”) or hyphen. For a zero units digit, stop: 40 is kırk.
4. Build hundreds, thousands and millions
Read larger numbers from the largest place value to the smallest. For exactly 100, say yüz; for exactly 1,000, say bin. Do not add bir before either of these when you mean one hundred or one thousand. With two or more hundreds or thousands, include the multiplier. One million is different: bir milyon.
| Number | Turkish | How it is built |
|---|---|---|
| 104 | yüz dört | 100 + 4 |
| 250 | iki yüz elli | 2 × 100 + 50 |
| 908 | dokuz yüz sekiz | 9 × 100 + 8 |
| 1.000 | bin | One thousand |
| 2.048 | iki bin kırk sekiz | 2 × 1,000 + 40 + 8 |
| 15.300 | on beş bin üç yüz | 15 × 1,000 + 3 × 100 |
| 1.000.000 | bir milyon | One million |
Skip empty place values when reading a quantity: 104 is yüz dört. In a code, however, you can read every digit separately, including zero.
5. Keep the noun singular after a number
For an ordinary counted quantity, Turkish uses the number followed by a singular noun. Say iki kitap for “two books,” üç bilet for “three tickets” and beş elma for “five apples.” The number already supplies the quantity, so you do not add the regular plural ending -lar or -ler to these nouns.
Practise with objects: bir kalem is one pen; dört kalem is four pens. For a café order, İki çay, lütfen means “Two teas, please.”
6. Read prices and practise phone digits
Turkish writing uses a comma for decimals and a dot to separate groups of thousands. A practice price written as 125,50 TL is one hundred twenty-five lira and fifty kuruş: yüz yirmi beş lira elli kuruş. A price written as 1.250 TL is bin iki yüz elli lira. These are language examples, not current shop prices.
When sharing a phone number, saying each digit slowly is a clear beginner option. Keep any leading zero and pause between groups. Practise this five-digit sequence: 0 7 2 8 6 becomes sıfır, yedi, iki, sekiz, altı. It is a practice sequence, not a complete phone number. In everyday speech you may also hear phone digits grouped into two- or three-digit numbers.
Ask a partner to read five mixed numbers. Write them down, then read them back. If needed, ask Tekrar eder misiniz? — “Could you repeat?”
Learn the surrounding café and shopping questions in the essential Turkish phrases guide.
7. Test yourself with four short exercises
Write 17, 32 and 89 in Turkish.
Check your answer
17: on yedi. 32: otuz iki. 89: seksen dokuz. Put the larger part first and leave spaces between the words.
How do you say 100, 1,000 and 1,000,000?
Check your answer
Yüz, bin and bir milyon. One million keeps bir; one hundred and one thousand do not need it.
Translate “four tickets” and “two coffees.”
Check your answer
Dört bilet and iki kahve. The counted nouns stay singular.
Read the illustrative price 86,25 TL in full.
Check your answer
Seksen altı lira yirmi beş kuruş. The comma separates the lira amount from the kuruş amount.
Common questions
How do you count from 1 to 10 in Turkish?
Bir, iki, üç, dört, beş, altı, yedi, sekiz, dokuz, on. Zero is sıfır. Practise the words in random order as well as counting in sequence.
Does Turkish use “and” inside numbers?
Ordinary whole numbers are built without ve, the word for “and.” For example, 246 is iki yüz kırk altı. Write the individual number words separately.
Is 1.500 the same as 1,500 in English notation?
Yes, in standard Turkish number notation 1.500 means one thousand five hundred: bin beş yüz. A decimal uses a comma, so 1,5 means one and a half.
References & further reading
Language references for this guide. The examples and practice activities are our own.