NĀ HELU:Numbers

HAW 101

NĀ HELU

• ‘ekahi number one• hoʻokahi one (amount)• ‘elua number two, two (amount)• ‘ekolu number three, three (amount)• ‘ehā number four, four (amount)• ‘elima number five, five (amount)• ‘eono number six, six (amount)• ‘ehiku number seven, seven (amount)• ‘ewalu number eight, eight (amount)• ‘eiwa number nine, nine (amount)• ‘umi number ten, ten • he ‘umi ten (amount)

NUMBER vs. AMOUNT

• ka mokuna ʻekahi the first chapter (Chapter 1)• hoʻokahi mokuna one chapter

• ka mokuna ʻehiku the seventh chapter (Chapter 7)• ʻehiku mokuna seven chapters

• ka mokuna ʻumi the tenth chapter (Chapter 10)• he ʻumi mokuna ten chapters • *Please note that for numbers 10 -99, you need the prefix

“he” when describing amounts of something.

KŪMĀ

• 11 – think of it as 10 + 1 even though kūmā doesn’t literally mean “plus.” Kūmā is simply a prefix used in numbers. You may hear people saying kumamā instead of kūmā. Both ways are correct, but kūmā is the more common prefix used today. Note that ʻe is dropped from the “root number” of ʻekahi as shown below:

 • ʻumi kūmā kahi• 10 + 1

#11-19

• ʻumikūmākahi 11• he ʻumikūmākahi 11 (amount)• ʻumikūmālua 12• ʻumikūmākolu 13• ʻumikūmāhā 14• ʻumikūmālima 15• ʻumikūmāono 16• ʻumikūmāhiku 17• ʻumikūmāwalu 18• ʻumikūmāiwa 19

#20-90

• iwakālua 20• he iwakālua 20 (amount)• iwakāluakūmākahi 21• iwakāluakūmākolu 23• kanakolu 30• kanakolukūmāhā 34• kanahā 40• kanalima 50• kanaono 60• kanahiku 70• kanawalu 80• kanaiwa 90

HUNDRED, THOUSAND, MILLION

• hoʻokahi haneli 100 (amount)• ʻelua haneli 200 (amount)• ʻekolu haneli 300 (amount)• hoʻokahi kaukani 1000 (amount)• ʻelua kaukani 2000 (amount)• ʻekolu kaukani 3000 (amount)• hoʻokahi miliona 1,000,000 (amount)• ʻelua miliona 2,000,000 (amount)• ʻekolu miliona 3,000,000 (amount)

NĀ LA`ANA

• When going into larger numbers, it is written out exactly as it said in English. For example:

• 156 one hundred fifty-six

hoʻokahi haneli kanalimakūmāono

 

• 248 two hundred forty-eight

ʻelua haneli kanahākūmāwalu

NĀ LA`ANA

• 1, 481 one thousand four hundred eighty one

hoʻokahi kaukani ʻehā haneli kanawalukūmākahi • 3, 090 three thousand ninety

ʻekolu kaukani kanaiwa

• 8, 008 eight thousand eight‘ewalu kaukani ʻewalu

NĀ LA`ANA: MAKAHIKI (years)