Lithuanian Out Loud 0044 - Dvylika Trylika Twelve Thirteen

Hi there, I’m Jack, welcome back to Lithuanian Out Loud where I’m just learning the language but my wife, well, she’s 100% natural Lithuanian.  Thanks so much to those of you who answered our request for reviews on iTunes.  If you haven’t given us a review on iTunes and if you have a few extra minutes please consider writing one for us.  We’d love to get some more.  Today we’ll learn numbers greater than ten but first, here’s my brilliant wife Raminta via Skype, what do you have for us honey?

Today we’ll take another page out of Wikipedia.  In episode 0029 we introduced you to Perkūnas, the Lithuanian god of thunder and the sky.  Perkūnas has a daughter named Aušrinė.  In English we call the planet Venus the Morning Star or the Evening Star depending on the time of day.  So, the Morning Star isn’t actually a star, it’s a planet.

Aušrinė is the goddess Morning Star.  Her father is Perkūnas and her mother is Saulė, the Sun Goddess.  Aušrinė is the female goddess of beauty, youth and health.  Aušrinė shows the sky-way for her mother Saulė, the sun.  Aušrinė has many sisters.  One is Vakarinė who makes her mother’s bed in the evening.  Her mother is, of course, Saulė, the sun.  Such a loving family, don’t you think?  But, sometimes they do have problems.  One time long ago Saulė was married to Mėnulis, the masculine hero, the Moon.  They divorced and Mėnulis fell madly in love with Aušrinė, the Morning Star Goddess.

Mėnulis kidnapped Aušrinė and wanted to marry her but Perkūnas, Aušrinė’s father stopped the wedding by hitting an oak tree, splattering Aušrinė’s white clothes with the oak tree’s blood.  Perkūnas punished Mėnulis by slicing him with his sword.  So much for the wedding.

Thank you dear, that was great. -- As I said today we’ll work on numbers larger than ten.  First, let’s quickly review one through ten…

vienas du trys keturi penki šeši septyni aštuoni devyni dešimt

great, now here’s eleven through twenty,

prašom pakartoti please repeat

vienuolika     eleven

vienuolika     eleven

dvylika         twelve

dvylika         twelve

trylika           thirteen

trylika           thirteen

keturiolika      fourteen

keturiolika     fourteen

penkiolika      fifteen

penkiolika      fifteen

šešiolika        sixteen

šešiolika        sixteen

septyniolika   seventeen

septyniolika   seventeen

aštuoniolika   eighteen

aštuoniolika    eighteen

devyniolika     nineteen

devyniolika    nineteen

dvidešimt       twenty

dvidešimt       twenty

now, the numbers twenty, thirty, forty, fifty, etcetera, are easy.  Raminta will say the number in Lithuanian, then I’ll say the number in English,

prašom pakartoti

okay, so I am counting…

dvidešimt            twenty

trisdešimt            thirty

keturiasdešimt      forty

penkiasdešimt      fifty

šešiasdešimt         sixty

septyniasdešimt   seventy

aštuoniasdešimt   eighty

devyniasdešimt    ninety

šimtas                 one hundred

once more, repeat after Raminta…

dvidešimt trisdešimt keturiasdešimt penkiasdešimt šešiasdešimt septyniasdešimt aštuoniasdešimt devyniasdešimt šimtas

the numbers between the tens are created easily as well.  These numbers are made up of two words.  We won’t repeat every number from one to one hundred but there are enough here for you to understand the system.  Here, I’ll say the number in English and you try to say it in Lithuanian before Raminta.  Good luck! 

21    dvidešimt vienas

22    dvidešimt du

23    dvidešimt trys

34    trisdešimt keturi

35    trisdešimt penki

36    trisdešimt šeši

47    keturiasdešimt septyni

48     keturiasdešimt aštuoni

49    keturiasdešimt devyni

51    penkiasdešimt vienas

52     penkiasdešimt du

53     penkiasdešimt trys

64    šešiasdešimt keturi

65    šešiasdešimt penki

66    šešiasdešimt šeši

77    septyniasdešimt septyni

78     septyniasdešimt aštuoni

79    septyniasdešimt devyni

81    aštuoniasdešimt vienas

82    aštuoniasdešimt du

83     aštuoniasdešimt trys

94     devyniasdešimt keturi

95     devyniasdešimt penki

101   šimtas vienas

102   šimtas du

103   šimtas trys

starting with the next lesson we’ll take a break from numbers for a few episodes to work on some other concepts.  When we come back to numbers we’ll learn how to say two restrooms, three brothers, five people, etcetera.  Next week’s lesson will be an intermediate level lesson and we think you’ll have fun with it.