What is 200 in Yorùbá?
200 in Yorùbá
igba
Hear it in a sentence
ìwádìí lé gbà ìgbà pípé
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How 200 is built in Yorùbá
- igba is its own unit for 200, the big counting unit of the traditional system.
Modern base-10 form
ọgọ́rùn-ún méjì
In school maths, prices and phone numbers, the modern system only adds: "ó lé" means "and more", so the parts are simply summed.
200 in the other Nigerian languages
Nearby numbers in Yorùbá
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.