LingoflyNumbers and counting in Armenian
27 words in Armenian on the topic “numbers and counting”: Մեկ (mek) — one, Երկու (yerku) — two, Երեք (yerek') — three, Չորս (chors) — four. 27 words can be played from recordings.
27 words on the topic
- Մեկmekoneboth 'one' and 'once': mek angam — one time
- Երկուyerkutwohence Yerkushabti — Monday: the Armenian week literally counts its days
- Երեքyerek'threeYerek'shabti — Tuesday, 'the third day'. The day count goes on the same way
- Չորսchorsfourin compounds it turns into chorek': Chorek'shabti — Wednesday
- ՀինգhingfiveHingshabti — Thursday. The count ends at five: Friday and Saturday are named differently
- Վեցvetssixthe ordinal leaves it unchanged: vets → vetserord. Do not confuse with verj — 'end'
- Յոթyot'seventhe initial Y sounds like English y. The aspirated t' holds on in derivatives: yot'erord, yot' haryur
- Ութut'eightjust two sounds, both held: ut'. Do not confuse with utel — to eat: there the t has no puff
- Ինըinəninethe dictionary form with the article -ə. Before another word it stays, inə haryur, and in the ordinal the n doubles — innerord
- Տասըtasətenalso with the article -ə. In compounds it vanishes and the stem stretches: tasnmek, tasnerord
- Երկու հարյուրyerku haryurtwo hundredthe hundred never fuses with the number: written and heard as two words, yerku + haryur. The stress lands on the last syllable of the second: yer-KU har-YUR
- Երեք հարյուրyerek' haryurthree hundredyerek' stays whole here — unlike the weekday, where it shrank into yerek'shabti
- Չորս հարյուրchors haryurfour hundredchors stays intact here. In the ordinal 'fourth', chorrord, though, it snaps down to chor-
- Հինգ հարյուրhing haryurfive hundredthe workhorse coin of Armenia is the hing haryur dram; in speech people just call it hing haryuranots
- Վեց հարյուրvets haryursix hundredvets ends in ts', haryur begins with h — you hear a short puff where they meet; they never melt into one word
- Յոթ հարյուրyot' haryurseven hundredyot' is written with the aspirated t' and keeps it even inside the hundred: yot' har-YUR
- Ութ հարյուրut' haryureight hundredut' is a tiny word of just two sounds, easy to swallow in fast speech. Counting aloud, stretch the ut'
- Ինը հարյուրinə haryurnine hundredbefore haryur, nine stands in its full form inə, not in. The same in inə hazar — nine thousand
- Չորրորդchorrordfourthordinals are made with -erord, but four breaks the pattern: chors shrinks to chor- and takes -rord
- Հինգերորդhingerordfifthfrom here on everything is regular: the whole numeral plus -erord. Hing + erord
- Վեցերորդvetserordsixthvets + erord. The stress stays on the first syllable: VE-tser-ord
- Յոթերորդyot'erordseventhyot' + erord. The puff on the t' does not go anywhere, even mid-word
- Ութերորդut'erordeighthut' + erord. Do not confuse with ut'sun — eighty: a different ending there
- Իններորդinnerordninthinə drops its final ə and doubles the n: inn + erord. To the ear it is one long nn
- Տասներորդtasnerordtenthtasə becomes tasn- before the ending, just as in tasnmek — eleven
- Հարյուրերորդharyurerordhundredthharyur + erord, by the general rule. A long word, but assembled from two simple blocks
- Թիվt'ivnumbera number as quantity. A phone number is hamar — an entirely different word
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How it sounds in a sentence
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What is worth knowing about these words
Մեկ (mek) — one. Both 'one' and 'once': mek angam — one time.
Երկու (yerku) — two. Hence Yerkushabti — Monday: the Armenian week literally counts its days.
Երեք (yerek') — three. Yerek'shabti — Tuesday, 'the third day'. The day count goes on the same way.
Չորս (chors) — four. In compounds it turns into chorek': Chorek'shabti — Wednesday.
Test yourself
First by ear — the way you will meet the word in conversation. Click the speaker and pick the translation.
- What is this word?
It is Մեկ (mek) — one.
- What is this word?
It is Ութ (ut') — eight.
- What is this word?
It is Վեց հարյուր (vets haryur) — six hundred.
- What is this word?
It is Յոթերորդ (yot'erord) — seventh.
- What is this word?
It is Երկու (yerku) — two.
Now the other way around: recall the spelling from the meaning. That is harder, and therefore more useful.
- How do you say “one” in Armenian?
both 'one' and 'once': mek angam — one time
- How do you say “eight” in Armenian?
just two sounds, both held: ut'. Do not confuse with utel — to eat: there the t has no puff
- How do you say “six hundred” in Armenian?
vets ends in ts', haryur begins with h — you hear a short puff where they meet; they never melt into one word
- How do you say “seventh” in Armenian?
yot' + erord. The puff on the t' does not go anywhere, even mid-word
- How do you say “two” in Armenian?
hence Yerkushabti — Monday: the Armenian week literally counts its days
How to learn the set instead of just reading it
A price, the change, a house number, the time you agreed on, the floor. Numbers are the first thing you have to catch by ear — and the first thing people say fast.
A list is read in a minute and forgotten in a day. What works: hide the translation, try to recall, get it wrong — and come back to the same words tomorrow.
- Recalling beats re-reading. Covering the translation and trying to remember it does more than reading it ten more times.checked many timesAdesope, Trevisan & Sundararajan, 2017, Review of Educational Research 87(3) · 188 experiments, 272 comparisons. g = 0.61; against plain re-reading 0.51, against passive review 0.93.
- Study spread over days wins not only in experiments but in ordinary classrooms, with real students.checked many timesMawson & Kang, 2025, Behavioral Sciences 15(6):771 · 22 studies, d = 0.54 (confidence interval 0.31–0.77). The authors warn that individual studies disagree widely.
Frequently asked
How do you say “one” in Armenian?
«Մեկ» (mek), read “mek”. Both 'one' and 'once': mek angam — one time. It is one of 27 words in the set “numbers and counting” — the rest are in the table above.
How many numbers do you need to start?
The whole set on this page is 27 words, but there is no need to start with all of it: the words you will need in the next few days are enough. Take them a few at a time — five to seven new ones per session.
Is there audio?
Yes, 27 words on this page can be played — click the speaker next to the word. The sound works on any phone, and nothing needs to be installed.