1 in Diné / Navajo
t’ááłá’í
One, in the Diné College reference guide’s spelling.
LIVING · DECIMAL NUMBER WORDS
Diné / Navajo
Diné bizaad
Decimal number words, using forms documented by Diné College.
Convert numbers- Place
- Navajo Nation, southwestern North America
- Period / variant
- Contemporary Diné College learning forms
EXAMPLES
dízdiin dóó bi’aan naaki
42 · Decimal number words
Forty followed by the linking expression and two, exactly as documented by Diné College.
Worked example
Read 42 in Diné / Navajo
The converter covers every whole number from 1 through 100 in the Diné College guide’s wording. Teens put the unit before ts’áadah. Twenty compounds join a unit directly; compounds from thirty upward use dóó bi’aan between the tens and units.
- dízdiin
dízdiin is the complete word for 40, or 4 tens.
- dóó bi’aan naaki
Dóó bi’aan links the tens to naaki, or 2.
Check
40 + 2 = 42
Sources and notation notes
Number-word dictionary
Number words are the signs in this tradition. This dictionary shows the documented words and their meanings, preserving the spelling used by the sources. Some words name whole groups or connect parts of a number.
- t’ááłá’í
- 1
- naaki
- 2
- táá’
- 3
- dį́į́’
- 4
- ashdla’
- 5
- hastą́ą́
- 6
- tsoosts’id
- 7
- tseebíí
- 8
- náhást’éí
- 9
- neeznáá
- 10
- naadiin
- 20
- tádiin
- 30
- dízdiin
- 40
- ashdladiin
- 50
- hastą́diin
- 60
- tsoosts’idiin
- 70
- tseebíídiin
- 80
- náhást’édiin
- 90
- ła’
- one in the guide’s 11 and 21 compounds
- ts’áadah
- teen element · follows the unit in 11–19
- -diin
- tens element; learn the complete tens forms
- dóó bi’aan
- links the tens and units in the guide’s 30–99 compounds
- t’ááłá’ídi neeznádiin
- 100 · complete documented compound
How the words fit together
The converter covers every whole number from 1 through 100 in the Diné College guide’s wording. Teens put the unit before ts’áadah. Twenty compounds join a unit directly; compounds from thirty upward use dóó bi’aan between the tens and units.
- Learn the ten unit names in the dictionary, preserving accents, nasal vowels such as į́ and ą́, ł, and apostrophes.
- Begin with naaki, meaning two, and naadiin, meaning twenty.
- The teens use the unit followed by ts’áadah: naaki ts’áadah gives 12. Eleven uses the short unit form ła’: ła’ ts’áadah.
- For naadiin naaki, read twenty followed by two: 20 + 2 = 22.
- Twenty-one uses the same short one form as eleven: naadiin ła’. The guide uses t’ááłá’í for the added one from thirty-one onward.
- For dízdiin dóó bi’aan naaki, read dízdiin as forty. The linking expression dóó bi’aan connects it to the final naaki, or two.
- Add 40 + 2 = 42. Follow this tens-linker-units pattern through ninety-nine, using the complete tens forms in the dictionary rather than attaching a suffix to an unchanged unit word.
- T’ááłá’ídi neeznádiin is the guide’s documented expression for one hundred.
2 in Diné / Navajo
naaki
Two, a basic counting word.
3 in Diné / Navajo
táá’
Three, preserving the guide’s vowel accents and apostrophe.
10 in Diné / Navajo
neeznáá
Ten, in the Diné College guide’s spelling.
11 in Diné / Navajo
ła’ ts’áadah
The short one form followed by the teen element: 1 + 10 = 11.
12 in Diné / Navajo
naaki ts’áadah
Two followed by the teen element: 10 + 2 = 12.
20 in Diné / Navajo
naadiin
Twenty, the guide’s complete tens form.
21 in Diné / Navajo
naadiin ła’
Twenty plus the short one form, preserving the guide’s wording.
22 in Diné / Navajo
naadiin naaki
Twenty and two. The guide gives this form without dóó bi’aan.
42 in Diné / Navajo
dízdiin dóó bi’aan naaki
Forty followed by the linking expression and two, exactly as documented by Diné College.
56 in Diné / Navajo
ashdladiin dóó bi’aan hastą́ą́
Fifty followed by the linking expression and six: 50 + 6 = 56. Preserve the nasal vowels in hastą́ą́.
100 in Diné / Navajo
t’ááłá’ídi neeznádiin
One hundred, using the guide’s documented compound.
These are living-language counting words. This converter follows the Diné College guide’s complete 1–100 list, including its separate-word spacing and linking conventions; other sources can write contracted forms or use different conventions. Nasal vowels, accents, ł and apostrophes matter. The range 1–100 is an app limit and does not claim complete coverage of grammatical or spelling variation.
History
The examples follow the number words and spelling in the reference guide published by Diné College’s Learning Center.
How to read it
The converter covers every whole number from 1 through 100 in the Diné College guide’s wording. Teens put the unit before ts’áadah. Twenty compounds join a unit directly; compounds from thirty upward use dóó bi’aan between the tens and units.
- Learn the ten unit names in the dictionary, preserving accents, nasal vowels such as į́ and ą́, ł, and apostrophes.
- Begin with naaki, meaning two, and naadiin, meaning twenty.
- The teens use the unit followed by ts’áadah: naaki ts’áadah gives 12. Eleven uses the short unit form ła’: ła’ ts’áadah.
- For naadiin naaki, read twenty followed by two: 20 + 2 = 22.
- Twenty-one uses the same short one form as eleven: naadiin ła’. The guide uses t’ááłá’í for the added one from thirty-one onward.
- For dízdiin dóó bi’aan naaki, read dízdiin as forty. The linking expression dóó bi’aan connects it to the final naaki, or two.
- Add 40 + 2 = 42. Follow this tens-linker-units pattern through ninety-nine, using the complete tens forms in the dictionary rather than attaching a suffix to an unchanged unit word.
- T’ááłá’ídi neeznádiin is the guide’s documented expression for one hundred.
Limits
These are living-language counting words. This converter follows the Diné College guide’s complete 1–100 list, including its separate-word spacing and linking conventions; other sources can write contracted forms or use different conventions. Nasal vowels, accents, ł and apostrophes matter. The range 1–100 is an app limit and does not claim complete coverage of grammatical or spelling variation.
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