Free Russian Numbers to Words Converter

How the Russian numbers to words converter works

There is one box, and it works both ways. Type a number in digits, such as 21 or 2026, and it appears written out in Russian words: 21 is двадцать один and 2026 is две тысячи двадцать шесть. Negatives work too, so -7 becomes минус семь. Whole numbers go up to 24 digits.

Russian writes the decimal mark as a comma, and that makes one case ambiguous. This page is in English, so 1,500 on its own is read as fifteen hundred and 1.500 as one and a half. When that happens, the converter says so.

Each result sits on its own row with a Copy button. The first row, In Russian words, gives the number as it's normally written: 123 is сто двадцать три and 1987 is тысяча девятьсот восемьдесят семь. The next row, With stress marks, gives the same words with the stressed vowel marked: ты́сяча девятьсо́т во́семьдесят семь. Russian text doesn't mark stress, so this is the row to read aloud from. The stresses were checked by hand, and ё is always written as ё. To mark the stress in any other Russian text, paste it into the Russian stress marker.

Where Russian has a second correct form, an Also written row shows it. A thousand is тысяча, but одна тысяча is also correct, and so is один миллион for миллион. You'll see the longer forms on banknotes and in contracts.

The With a noun row counts something for you in all three genders: стол (table, masculine), книга (book, feminine) and окно (window, neuter). So 1 gives один стол, одна книга, одно окно. 2 gives два стола, две книги, два окна, and 5 gives пять столов, пять книг, пять окон. The section below explains why the noun keeps changing.

The As money row writes the amount in rubles, dollars or euros, with the noun in the right form. 21.50 rubles is двадцать один рубль пятьдесят копеек, 2.01 rubles is два рубля одна копейка and 5 rubles is пять рублей. A million rubles is миллион рублей, and zero is ноль рублей. Евро doesn't change, so 3 euros is три евро.

From 1 to 1,000,000 you also get the ordinal in the masculine, feminine and neuter, with stress marks and the abbreviations 21-й, 21-я and 21-е. For numbers from 1000 to 2999, the words row adds the year with год, and the form you use after в: тысяча девятьсот восемьдесят седьмой год, в тысяча девятьсот восемьдесят седьмом году.

The converter also reads Russian back into digits. Type сто двадцать три and you get 123. It takes words with or without stress marks, е for ё, capitals, the одна and одно forms, одна тысяча, and decimals written with целых. Slips get a note. Пятдесят is missing its soft sign, because 50 to 80 and 500 to 900 keep the ь. Девятьдесят gets a note that 90 is девяносто. Одинадцать needs a double н. Два тысячи and пять тысячи get an explanation of the forms of тысяча. If you type in Latin letters, it asks you to type in Cyrillic, and if you type an ordinal, it asks for the digits.

There's one limit. Numbers in Russian also change for case (двух, трёх, пятью), and the converter doesn't cover that. Apart from the year forms, everything it shows is in the nominative.

How to write Russian numbers from 1 to 100

Zero is ноль, and the numbers up to 10 each have their own word: один, два, три and so on up to десять. From 11 to 19 they end in -надцать, so 11 is одиннадцать, with a double н, and 14 is четырнадцать.

The tens are двадцать, тридцать, сорок, пятьдесят, шестьдесят, семьдесят, восемьдесят and девяносто. Two of them break the pattern: 40 is сорок and 90 is девяносто. And 50 to 80 keep a soft sign in the middle, so it's пятьдесят, not пятдесят.

Between the tens, Russian puts the units after the tens as a separate word, with no “and” and no hyphen: 21 is двадцать один and 87 is восемьдесят семь. Then 100 is сто. With those rules you can write all the Russian numbers from 1 to 100 in words. That's also the quiz's default range.

Один стол, два стола, пять столов

Russian changes the noun after a number, and there are three forms to choose from. After 1, the noun stays in the nominative singular: один стол. After 2, 3 and 4 it takes the genitive singular: два стола. After 5 and up it takes the genitive plural: пять столов. The last word of the number decides, so 21 counts like 1: двадцать одна книга.

The teens are the exception. 11 to 14 end in 1 to 4, but they all take the genitive plural, so it's одиннадцать столов.

Gender matters for 1 and 2. One is один for a masculine noun, одна for a feminine one and одно for a neuter one. Two is два for masculine and neuter nouns and две for feminine ones: два окна, две книги. When you count without a noun, Russian uses один and два.

Hundreds, thousands and millions in Russian

100 is сто, 200 is двести and 500 is пятьсот. From 500 to 900 the soft sign comes back, as in пятьсот and девятьсот.

Тысяча is a feminine noun, so it follows the same rule as книга. 1000 is тысяча, 2000 is две тысячи, 5000 is пять тысяч and 11,000 is одиннадцать тысяч. 21,000 is двадцать одна тысяча, and 22,000 is двадцать две тысячи. So два тысячи and пять тысячи are both wrong.

Миллион is masculine and follows the rule too: миллион, два миллиона, пять миллионов, двадцать один миллион. Numbers in Russian are written as separate words, however long they get, so 2,500,000 is два миллиона пятьсот тысяч.

Russian uses the short scale, like English. Миллиард is a billion (10 to the power of 9) and триллион is a trillion (10 to the power of 12), so the figures translate one for one. If you've learned German or Italian numbers, this is one thing you don't have to unlearn.

Decimals in Russian

Russian reads a decimal as a fraction. The whole part takes целых, and the part after the comma takes the name of its place: десятых for tenths, сотых for hundredths, тысячных for thousandths. So 3,14 is три целых четырнадцать сотых, three wholes and fourteen hundredths, and 0,5 is ноль целых пять десятых.

The counting rule applies here as well. 1,5 is одна целая пять десятых, and 2,01 is две целых одна сотая. The converter goes to six decimal places, down to миллионных.

Ordinals and years in Russian

The first ordinals are their own words: первый, второй, третий. Третий is irregular in the feminine and neuter, третья and третье. Most of the rest come from the number: седьмой, одиннадцатый, двадцатый, сотый, тысячный, миллионный. Watch сороковой for 40th and девяностый for 90th, and the ё in четвёртый and трёхсотый.

In a long number, only the last word becomes an ordinal. 21st is двадцать первый, 123rd is сто двадцать третий, 1100th is тысяча сотый and 2026th is две тысячи двадцать шестой. Round thousands are the exception, because the whole number becomes one word. 2000th is двухтысячный, 21,000th is двадцатиоднотысячный and 345,000th is трёхсотсорокапятитысячный. That's 25 letters with no spaces, and it's correct.

Years use the ordinal with год. 1987 is тысяча девятьсот восемьдесят седьмой год, and “in 1987” is в тысяча девятьсот восемьдесят седьмом году. Only the last word changes there too, so 2003 gives в две тысячи третьем году. The year 2000 is двухтысячный год.

Russian numbers practice

Below the converter is a practice mode that works as a Russian numbers quiz. Pick a range: 0 to 20, 0 to 100, 100 to 1,000, 1,000 to 1,000,000, or the years 1900 to 2099. It starts on 0 to 100. Then pick a direction: see the digits and type the Russian words, or read the Russian words and type the digits. Years are asked as ordinal years, so 1987 is тысяча девятьсот восемьдесят седьмой год, and you can leave off год. A Cyrillic keyboard on screen is laid out like a Russian one, with space and delete, so you don't need to install a Russian keyboard. Each answer is marked at once, and a running score stays on screen.

The quiz accepts е for ё, stress marks or none, and тысяча or одна тысяча. Small slips get “Almost”: одна or две where plain counting uses один or два, and words run together. A missing soft sign, девятьдесят, одинадцать and a wrong form of тысяча or миллион, as in пять тысячи, are marked wrong with a note on the rule. Press Stop to see your score and the numbers you missed, then “Practice my mistakes” goes through just those. There's no audio, so the quiz won't help with how Russian numbers sound.

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