What is 500 in Igbo?
500 in Igbo
narị ise
Built as 100 × 5
How 500 is built in Igbo
- narị ise is 5 hundreds: narị (100) × ise (5).
Traditional base-20 form
nnu na ogu ise
The older base-20 system counts in ogu (20) and nnu (400).
nnu (400) + ogu ise (100) = 500.
500 in the other Nigerian languages
Nearby numbers in Igbo
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.