English numerical prefixes

1. Numerical
prefixes
Zahra Mottaghi

2. Here are some common
numerical prefixes.
Numerical or number prefixes are prefixes derived from numerals
or occasionally other numbers.
In English and other European languages, they are used to coin
numerous series of words.
A numerical prefix lets you know how many there are of a
particular thing.

3. What are these?
Guess

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One
uni- mono
unicycle:
a vehicle like a
bicycle with only
one wheel
monorail:
a train that runs
on one track

6. Guess the meaning of the followings
Unicorn Monologue

7. What’s the name of this?

8. two
bi-

9. happening twice a year
biannual:

10. tri- : three
Triangle: a flat shape with three straight sides
tripod

11. quadruped:
a four-footed animal
.
four
quadr-

12. 12
A. B.
five
quint- penta-

13. a figure
with five
sides
quintet
pentagon
five babies
born at a
single birth
.
quintuplets:

14. Six: Sex-
sextet:
a group of six
musicians

15. Heptathlon

16. seven
Heptathlon:
an athletic contest
with seven events
hept- sept-
Septuplets:
seven babies born at
a single birth

17. octopus
a sea creature with eight
arms
octo-
eight

18. 18
nine
novem- Novena
Prayers said
over nine days

20. milli-
kilo-
1 2
Thousand Million
5
Ten
cent-
hecto-
Ten Multiples of Ten
deka-
deca-
Hundred
mega-
Billion
giga-

21. Decade:
a period of 10 years
Century:
a period of 100 years
Millennium:
a period of 1,000 years

22. 1
2
3
4
hectogram:
100 grams
kilogram:
1,000 grams
megaton: one million tons
gigawatt:
one billion watts

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