Kunne rere ko ashikne rere ko, five nights.
Kunne rere ko iwan rere ko, six nights.
Kunne rere ko arawan rere ko, seven nights.
Kunne rere ko tupe-san rere ko, eight nights.
Kunne rere ko shinepe-san rere ko, nine nights.
Wan anchikara, ten nights.
And so on; i.e. adding kunne and kunne rere ko wherever tokap and tokap rere ko would be added to express “day.”
Sometimes kunne is counted thus:—
Kunne to shine anchikara. One night. Kunne to tu anchikara. Two nights. Kunne to re anchikara. Three nights.
And so on.
The ordinal numbers are expressed in two ways. The first is as follows:—
Shine ikinne, first.
Tu ikinne, second.
Re ikinne, third.
Ine ikinne, fourth.
Ashikne ikinne, fifth.
Iwan ikinne, sixth.
Arawan ikinne, seventh.
Tupe-san ikinne, eighth.
Shinepe-san ikinne, ninth.
Wan ikinne, tenth.
And so on; adding ikinne to the radical form wherever pe, be, or p would be placed for the substantive form.
The second way is as follows, but goes no higher than ten. Above ten the first method alone is in use:—
Shine otutanu, first.
Tu otutanu, second.
Iye e re ikinne, third.
Iye e ine ikinne, fourth.
Iye e ashikne ikinne, fifth.
Iye e iwan ikinne, sixth.
Iye e arawan ikinne, seventh.
Iye e tupe-san ikinne, eighth.
Iye e shinepe-san ikinne, ninth.
Iye wan ikinne, tenth.
The ordinals are rarely met with. When they are used, the noun is preceded by no an, e.g.
