Hundreds and Thousands
Tap any tile to hear it spoken.
The hundreds use the ones as a prefix glued onto நூறு (100) — with some sound changes — and 900 takes its own form, தொள்ளாயிரம். Above a thousand, Tamil shifts to the South-Asian counting system: ten thousand, then லட்சம் (lakh, one hundred thousand) and கோடி (crore, ten million).
Hundreds
Thousands and beyond
Reading larger numbers
Tamil reads big numbers left-to-right just like English — e.g. 2,567 is இரண்டாயிரத்தி ஐந்நூற்று அறுபத்தி ஏழு (two-thousand five-hundred sixty-seven). For numbers people actually use day-to-day — bus fares, addresses, ages, salaries — this lesson’s building blocks are enough.