What is 600 in Igbo?
600 in Igbo
narị isii
Built as 100 × 6
Hear it in a sentence
Otu puku, narị isii na otu bụ ọnụọgụgụ.
A native speaker reading a whole sentence that contains this number word. The clip was matched to the word automatically.
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How 600 is built in Igbo
- narị isii is 6 hundreds: narị (100) × isii (6).
Traditional base-20 form
nnu na ogu iri
The older base-20 system counts in ogu (20) and nnu (400).
nnu (400) + ogu iri (200) = 600.
600 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.