Turkish: A Comprehensive Grammar

(iii) Interrogatives:
Adjectival constructions, determiners and numerals 181
hangi ‘which’ (19.2.1.4)
(iv) Markers of identity or (exclusive) otherness:
aynı ‘the same’
öteki/öbür/ diğer ‘the other’
(v) Ordinal numerals (15.7.2) and the related items ilk ‘first’ and son ‘last’
Noun phrases with definite determiners obligatorily have accusative case marking
when functioning as direct objects (see 22.1 (iii)).
15.7 NUMERALS
15.7.1 CARDINAL NUMERALS
The cardinal numerals of Turkish are the following:
sıfır ‘zero’ yirmi ‘twenty’ milyar ‘billion’
bir ‘one’ otuz ‘thirty’ trilyon ‘trillion’
iki ‘two’ kırk ‘forty’ katrilyon ‘quadrillion’
üç ‘three’ elli ‘fifty’ (=billion billion)
dört ‘four’ altmış ‘sixty’
beş ‘five’ yetmiş ‘seventy’
altı ‘six’ seksen ‘eighty’
yedi ‘seven’ doksan ‘ninety’
sekiz ‘eight’ yüz ‘(one) hundred’
dokuz ‘nine’ bin ‘(one) thousand’
on ‘ten’ milyon ‘million’
The numerals from one to nine follow higher numerals to form the numerals from 11 to
99, and these follow any other higher numerals:
on iki ‘twelve’
yetmiş üç ‘seventy-three’
yüz kırk beş ‘one hundred and forty-five’
bin yüz doksan dokuz ‘one thousand one hundred and ninety-nine’