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English Numbers, Symbols and Punctuation Marks ✔️

Learn “cardinal numbers”, “ordinal numbers”, “punctuation marks”, “roman numerals”, symbols and punctuation marks used in English language.

☛A Cardinal Number is a number that says how many of something there are, such as one, two, three, four, five.

☛An Ordinal Number is a number that tells the position of something in a list, such as 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th etc.

Roman numerals are a numeral system that originated in ancient Rome. Numbers in this system are represented by combinations of letters from the Latin alphabet.

Cardinal Numbers	Ordinal Numbers	Roman Numerals
1 – one	1st – first	1 – I
2 – two	2nd – second	2 – II
3 – three	3rd – third	3 – III
4 – four	4th – fourth	4 – IV
5 – five	5th – fifth	5 – V
6 – six	6th – sixth	6 – VI
7 – seven	7th – seventh	7 – VII
8 – eight	8th – eighth	8 – VIII
9 – nine	9th – ninth	9 – IX
10 – ten	10th – tenth	10 – X
11 – eleven	11th – eleventh	11 – XI
12 – twelve	12th – twelfth	12 – XII
13 – thirteen	13th – thirteenth	13 – XIII
14 – fourteen	14th – fourteenth	14 – XIV
15 – fifteen	15th – fifteenth	15 – XV
16 – sixteen	16th – sixteenth	16 – XVI
17 – seventeen	17th – seventeenth	17 – XVII
18 – eighteen	18th – eighteenth	18 – XVIII
19 – nineteen	19th – nineteenth	19 – XIX
20 – twenty	20th – twentieth	20 – XX
21 – twenty-one	21st – twenty-first	21 – XXI
30 – thirty	30th – thirtieth	30 – XXX
40 – forthy	40th – fortieth	40 – XL
50 – fifty	50th – fiftieth	50 – L
60 – sixty	60th – sixtieth	60 – LX
70 – seventy	70th – seventieth	70 – LXX
80 – eighty	80th – eightieth	80 – LXXX
90 – ninety	90th – ninetieth	90 – XC
100 – one hundred	100th – one hundredth	100 – C
500 – five hundred	500th – five hundredth	500 – D
1000 – one thousand	1000th – one thousandth	1000 – M

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Symbols and Punctuation Marks List:

Symbol	Meaning	Symbol	Meaning
+	plus	–	minus
x	multiplied by	÷	divided by
=	equals	>	greater than
<	less than	%	percent
&	and	@	at
°	degree	√	square root
π	pi	$	dollar
©	copyright	.	full stop
,	comma	;	semicolon
:	colon	?	question mark
!	exclamation mark	–	dash
*	asterisk	()	parentheses
“”	quotation marks	‘	apostrophe