Haitian Creole/Numbers/Zero to nineteen

Answer Key

One to twelve

Write out the full sentence, with the digit replaced by a word. These are all taken from the Haitian Creole Wikipedia. Try to figure out what they mean using the glossary below.

Gen 7 jou nan yon semèn.
Dyamèt li gwo pase 11 fwa dyamèt Latè a.
Patikil alfa se patikil ki konpoze avèk 2 pwoton ak 2 netwon ki emèt nan yon nwayo atomik ki an dekonpozisyon.
1 ogmante sou 1.
Areye se yon ensèk ki gen 8 pye.
Nonagòn se yon fòm jewometrik ki gen 9 kote ak 9 ang.
Ensèk se yon ti bèt ki genyen 6 pye. (This contradicts the one about spiders, I know.)
Karayib se yon zòn sitye lès Amerik santral ki konstitiye anpil zile nan 3 gwo zòn.
Konpozit se melanj 2 sibstans.
Douzèn, Yon kantite ki gen 12 inite nan li.

Zero to nineteen

1: youn - 2: de - 3: twa - 4: kat - 5: senk - 6: sis - 7: sèt - 8: uit - 9: nèf - 10: dis 11: onz - 12: douz - 13: trèz - 14: katòz - 15: kenz - 16: sèz - 17: disèt - 18: dizuit - 19: diznèf

Translate

Translate using the glossary.

Gen douz mwa nan yon lane.
Kenz moun te vini wè mwen.
Kite m ale de fwa!

Glosary

You could probably figure out the meanings of some of these by sounding them out: some sound similar to English.

ale: go
Amerik santral: Central America
an: in
ang: angle
areye: spider
atomik: atomic
avèk: with, of
bèt: animal, beast
dekonpozisyon: decomposition
douzèn: try to figure this one out for yourself.
dyamèt: diameter
emèt: emit
ensèk: insect
fòm: form, shape
fwa: time
gwo: big
inite: unit
jewometrik: geometric
kantite: quantity
Karayib: Caribbean
konpoze: compose(d)
konpozit: composite
konstitiye: constitute (of)
kote: side
lane: year
Latè: Earth
lès: east (of)
melanj: mixture
mwa: month
nan: in, other prepositional meanings may apply
netwon: neutron
nonagòn: nonagon
nwayo: nucleus
ogmante sou: plus
patikil: particle
patikil alfa: alpha particle
pwoton: proton
pye: foot
semèn: week
sitye: situate(d)
ti: little
vini: come
zile: island
zòn: zone