Numbers to 1000 & Money

Prices are the numbers you'll actually hear — fast, over a counter, with a queue behind you. This lesson gets you to a thousand and teaches the famous rule that numbers bend nouns.

The Tens

Stacking

Bigger numbers just stack, no "and" needed:

The Price Rule

Here's where Chapter 1's mysterious "counting bends nouns" pays off:

The same rule runs through hours (час, часа, часов) and years (год, года, лет) — one pattern, everywhere money and time are counted.

Cheap or Dear

Common Mistakes

• Рублей everywhere. Два рублей is wrong — 2–4 take рубля.
• Forgetting сорок. Forty refuses the pattern; it's just сорок.
• Translating "one hundred and five". No "and": сто пять.

What You Can Do Now

You can understand any price, say any number to a thousand, and react like a local — дорого! Every shop, market and taxi negotiation is now open to you.