Klingon number system

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For this page I'm giving the 1-10 numbers and then examples of how the higher numbers are formed. The number system is pretty much self-explaining:

.......1 wa'...................6 jav
.......2 cha'..................7 Soch
.......3 wej..................8 chorgh
.......4 loS...................9 Hut
.......5 vagh.................10 wa'maH

.......11 wa'maH wa'
.......12 wa'maH cha'
.......13 wa'maH wej
.......etc...
.......20 cha'maH
.......21 cha'maH wa'
.......22 cha'maH cha'

.......30 wejmaH
.......40 loSmaH
.......50 vaghmaH
.......etc

.......100 wa'vatlh
.......200 cha'vatlh
.......etc

.......1,000 wa'SaD or wa'SanID
.......2,000 cha'SaD or cha'SanID
.......3,000 wejSaD or wejSanID
.......etc

The elements for forming higher numbers:
.......netlh 10,000 (ten thousand)
.......bIp 100,000 (hundred thousand)
.......'uy' 1,000,000 (million)

And 0 (Zero) is pagh

Numbers can stand alone in a sentence, or can be used to modify a noun
.......mulegh vagh Five (of them) see me (mulegh = they see me)
.......wa' yIjon Capture one of them! (yIjon = capture)

Numbers are placed before a noun to modify it.
.......vagh be'pu' or vagh be' five women
.......wej DuHmey or wej DuH three options
Plural suffixes (pu', mey, Du') are not necessary when you are using numbers.

When a number isn't used for counting (one thing, two things, etc) but is used for numbering (thing #1, thing #2, like in Dr. Seuss), then it comes after the noun. Compare:

.......wa'maH vagh mang 15 soldiers
.......mang wa'maH vagh soldier #15

Ordinals

Ordinal numbers are formed by taking a number and adding -DIch to the end

.......wa'DIch first
.......cha'Dich second
.......wejDIch third
.......loSDIch fourth
.......etc.

These numbers follow the noun

.......mang loSDIch the fourth soldier

And that's all I have for numbers.
-Nero (yInjaj Holmaj!)

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Source:
Okrand, Marc. 1992. The Klingon Dictionary. New York: Pocket Books, Simon & Schuster Inc.

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