Skip to content
InkLingo
All vocabulary lists

English word list: Numerals — 73 words

73 words · Story levels: A0–B2
Including: I · one · two · three · second

Swipe this list0 / 73

I

/aɪ/

first-person singular subject pronoun

/aɪ/

first-person singular subject pronoun

Also means: regnal numeral in a royal name

/wʌn/

the number 1; a single unit

Also means: pronoun for a person or thing · emphatic determiner highlighting a particular thing · indefinite determiner marking a particular but unspecified time

just start with one.

Cold House, One Bar · A1

/θriː/

cardinal quantity three modifying a noun

Also means: the three-unit part of a compound number · the standalone number three

ok now we are three chairs apart.

We're in the Same Waiting Room · A2

/θriː/

3 o’clock

Also means: three (quantity) · third school year

Jake put the new cake in the kitchen. Gran arrived at 3. She ate the old cake. Dad never knew.

My Gran Joined the Group Chat · A1

/θɜːrd/

ordinal modifier for the item or occurrence in position three

Also means: stand-alone ordinal naming the item in third position

Yes!! This is the third time this week.

Someone Put My Lunch in the Bin Again · A1

/ˌfɔːrˈtiːn/

day of the month

Also means: quantity of fourteen years · street address number · identifier for item 14

They got married on June 14, 1987.

What She Chose Not to Say · A2

/ˌfɪfˈtiːn/

the number fifteen

Jamie walked into the kitchen at exactly 2:00 pm. About 15 people were gathered around the table. The same table. The same cake tin was still sitting in the corner from Derek's party. Jamie took a breath and started speaking.

You Gave a Speech at the Wrong Leaving Do · B1

/ˌsɛvənti ˈfɔɹ/

the number seventy-four

She is 74 years old.

Not For Me · A1

/ˌnaɪntiːn ˌeɪti ˈwʌn/

the year 1981

He had found the Carnival in 1981, the year that the Brixton riots left a particular kind of bruise on the city— a bruise that the Carnival, that August, had pressed its thumb against and said: we are still here, and we are still beautiful.

The Notting Hill Carnival Float That Never Left the Yard · B2

/ˌeɪtiˈeɪθ/

ordinal number: 88th

In the 88th minute, with the score level at 1–1, a Midlands United forward named Colin Hartley received a long pass and ran clear of the defence.

The Linesman Who Never Explained His Flag · B2

/ˌsɛvənˈtiːnθ/

ordinal number 17

And yet his baton had been in Brno on the seventeenth of March — three days after his supposed death — logged as personal property recovered from a hotel room where the guest had left without checking out.

The Conductor Whose Baton Was Found in the Wrong City · B2

Download

Stories that use these words

Related lists