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Lesson 4 of 10

Counting to ten in Amharic

One to ten, for prices, platforms, rooms and how many beers. Play the ten Amharic words against the clock, with a note on how locals really use each one after every answer. All ten are written out below.

Fasilides Palace in Gondar, Ethiopia
Counting to ten
10 words · 20 seconds each · 8 of 10 to pass
What it meansHow to say it
Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

All 10 Amharic phrases in this lesson

አንድand
One
ሁለትhu-LET
Two
ሶስትSOST
Three
አራትa-RAT
Four
አምስትAM-mist
Five
ስድስትSID-dist
Six
ሰባትse-BAT
Seven
ስምንትSIM-mint
Eight
ዘጠኝze-TEGN
Nine
አስርA-sir
Ten

Ethiopia also has its own numerals (፩ to ፲), seen on calendars and churches, but prices use ordinary digits.

Where Amharic is spoken

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