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Learn Mandarin Chinese – Counting over 1000 (Lesson 73)

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Learn how to form numbers over a thousand in Chinese.
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Thousands – 0:10
1000 – 0:57
2000 – 1:05
3000, 4000, 5000 – 1:12
6000, 7000, 8000, 9000 – 1:30
1246 – 2:00
3575 – 2:15
6750 – 2:31
5,515 – 2:58
5,512 – 3:13
5,511 – 3:27
Display 1 – 3:54
1001 – 4:13
2002 – 4:23
6005 – 4:33
7007 – 4:44
Display 1 – 4:55
2222 – 6:12
Ten Thousands – 6:45
10,000 – 7:02
20,000 – 7:12
30,000; 40,000; 50,000 – 7:22
60,000 – 7:38
70,000; 80,000 – 7:52
90,000 – 8:03
Display 2 – 8:14

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Producer – Fame Ketover

Writers – John Harvey, Lucille Barale, Roberta Barry, Thomas Madden, Susan Pola

Script Supervisor – Fame Ketover

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Partial transcript
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Hi, I’m Fame Ketover of Lenguin.com and this is Mandarin Chinese. In this lesson you’ll learn the numbers from 1000 to 99,999.
Listen to the speaker say the thousands.
yìqiān
liǎngqiān
sānqiān
sìqiān
wǔqiān
liùqiān
qīqiān
bāqiān
jiǔqiān

Repeat “1000”.
○ 一千
○ 一千

Repeat “2000”.
○ 两千
○ 两千

Repeat “3000, 4000, 5000”.
○ 三千 四千 五千
○ 三千 四千 五千

Repeat “6000, 7000, 8000, 9000”.
○ 六千 七千 八千 九千
○ 六千 七千 八千 九千

Numbers over 1000 are formed in the same ways you’ve already learned.
Repeat the number, 1246.
○ 一千两百四十六
○ 一千两百四十六

Repeat the number, 3575.
○ 三千五百七十五
○ 三千五百七十五

Now the number, 6750.
○ 六千七百五十
○ 六千七百五十

The rules you learned for forming numbers over 100 also hold true for forming numbers over 1000. For instance, you still must insert a one before the ten for forming teen numbers.
Repeat 5,515.
○ 五千五百一十五
○ 五千五百一十五

Repeat 5,512.
○ 五千五百一十二
○ 五千五百一十二

Repeat 5,511.
○ 五千五百一十一
○ 五千五百一十一

However, the rule for the use of “zero” is altered slightly for numbers over 1000. The word “líng” can stand for more than…