What is 2,000 in Igbo?

2,000 in Igbo

puku abụọ

Built as 1,000 × 2

Hear it in a sentence

Ee, ọ zuru achịcha puku abụọ na itoolu.

A native speaker reading a whole sentence that contains this number word. The clip was matched to the word automatically.

Recording by a native speaker from NaijaVoices, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.

How 2,000 is built in Igbo

puku abụọ is puku (1,000) multiplied by abụọ (2).

Traditional base-20 form

nnu ise

The older base-20 system counts in ogu (20) and nnu (400).

nnu ise is 5 × 400.

2,000 in the other Nigerian languages

2,000 in Yorùbáẹgbẹ̀rún méjì 2,000 in Hausadubu biyu

Nearby numbers in Igbo

800narị asatọ 900narị itoolu 1,000puku 5,000puku ise 10,000puku iri 100,000puku narị

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These forms are generated from the counting rules of each language and are still awaiting native-speaker review. Numeral words vary by region and by source. Numbers above 1,000 are the least certain, because everyday speech often switches to the modern system or to English for large amounts.