Now that you’ve learned zero to ten, there are only two new words to get you to twenty.

The numbers from 12 to 20 are made by simply adding the word sìp in front. 11 is a little different as it uses a new word.

sìp-èd · eleven

-èd is added to tens to signify one. More on this in the next lesson.

sìp-săwng · twelve

sìp-săam · thirteen

sìp-sèe · fourteen

sìp-hâa · fifteen

sìp-hòk · sixteen

sìp-jèd · seventeen

sìp-bpàaed · eighteen

sìp-gâo · nineteen

yêe-sìp · twenty

yêe- is our second new word and is only used to say twenty. We DON’T say săwng-sìp.