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Numbers 11–100, age, days, time

Unit 13 · Part C · Arabic A1 (Beginners)
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Numbers 11–20

Arabic A1 · Unit 13
GoalCount from eleven to twenty in Arabic words and write the Eastern numerals.
New words
أَحَدَ عَشَر (ʾaḥada ʿashar) · 11 · elevenاِثْنَا عَشَر (ithnā ʿashar) · 12 · twelveثَلَاثَةَ عَشَر (thalāthata ʿashar) · 13 · thirteenخَمْسَةَ عَشَر (khamsata ʿashar) · 15 · fifteenسَبْعَةَ عَشَر (sabʿata ʿashar) · 17 · seventeenتِسْعَةَ عَشَر (tisʿata ʿashar) · 19 · nineteenعِشْرُون (ʿishrūn) · 20 · twentyعَشَر (ʿashar) · ten (in 11 to 19)
Explanation

From 13 to 19, Arabic says “unit + ten”. You know the unit words from unit 9, and the word عَشَر (ʿashar) is “ten”: ثَلَاثَةَ عَشَر is thalāthata ʿashar, “three-ten”. The ة of the unit word is read ta before عَشَر. Two numbers are special: 11 is ʾaḥada ʿashar, and 12 is ithnā ʿashar. Twenty is a new word, عِشْرُون (ʿishrūn). These are the forms for counting out loud. The Eastern numerals are written like the digits, from left to right: ١١ ١٢ ١٣.

DigitEasternSayWord
11١١ʾaḥada ʿasharأَحَدَ عَشَر
12١٢ithnā ʿasharاِثْنَا عَشَر
13١٣thalāthata ʿasharثَلَاثَةَ عَشَر
14١٤ʾarbaʿata ʿasharأَرْبَعَةَ عَشَر
15١٥khamsata ʿasharخَمْسَةَ عَشَر
16١٦sittata ʿasharسِتَّةَ عَشَر
17١٧sabʿata ʿasharسَبْعَةَ عَشَر
18١٨thamāniyata ʿasharثَمَانِيَةَ عَشَر
19١٩tisʿata ʿasharتِسْعَةَ عَشَر
20٢٠ʿishrūnعِشْرُون
Worked examples
Count on: eleven, twelve, thirteen. Press each card.
ثَلَاثَةَthalāthata+عَشَرʿashar
Thirteen is three and ten. The word is built from two parts.
Read the numerals, then press Listen: fifteen and twenty.
Class activity

Count and write. Count to twenty out loud in Arabic, starting from eleven. Then count twelve objects on your table, such as coins, pens or buttons, and say the number. Write the Eastern numerals ١١ to ٢٠ in a row from left to right, and write the Arabic word under each one.

Practice
1
Press Listen. Is it a number from 11 to 19?

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2
Write 13, 16 and 18 in Eastern numerals.
3
How many stars are there? Say the number in Arabic.
4
Say 8 + 10 in Arabic.
5
Read the number and write the digit.

تِسْعَةَ عَشَر