NumType: numeral type
In Tatar, numbers can be cardinal, ordinal or distributive. We also mark the interrogative ничә “how many” as a number, which inflects the same way the numbers are inflected and can become ordinal, distributive, or collective.
Card: cardinal number or corresponding interrogative
Examples
- 1, 2, 3
- бер, ике, өч “one, two, three”
- ничә китап укыдың “how many books did you read”
Ord: ordinal number or corresponding interrogative
In some languages, this is a subtype of adjective or adverb.
In Tatar, we mark the ordinal numerals as NUM.
Ordinal numerals are formed by the suffix -ынчы/енче.
Examples
- 1–нче, 2-нче, 3-нче
- беренче, икенче, өченче “first, second, third”
- ничәнче китапны укыдың “which (of a series) book did your read” (answer should be something like икенче “(the) second”)
Dist: distributive numeral
Used to express that the same quantity is distributed to each member in a set of targets.
Distributive numerals are formed by the suffix -(ш)ар/әр.
Examples
- берәр, икешәр, өчәр “one each, two each, three each”
- ничәшәр китап укыдыгыз “how many books each have you read”
Sets: collective numeral
Morphologically distinct class of numerals used to count sets of things, or nouns that are pluralia tantum. Some authors call this type collective numeral. In Tatar, collective numeral is expressed by the suffix -әү/-ау.
Examples
- без икәү “we two”
- ничәү барасыз “how many of you are going”
NumType in other languages: [bej] [bg] [bm] [cs] [el] [en] [es] [fi] [fr] [ga] [hu] [hy] [it] [ka] [kk] [koi] [kpv] [ky] [mdf] [myv] [pcm] [qpm] [sl] [sme] [tr] [tt] [u] [uk] [urj] [xav]