When actually counting out loud the numerals 1 to 10 are pronounced as follows:
| chîn maîsons | five houses |
| chîn louis | five pounds (sterling) |
| chîn nouvieaux pénîns | five new pence |
| chîn minnutes | five minutes |
| chîn vaituthes | five cars |
| chîn milles | five miles |
| chîn pids | five feet |
But when preceding a vowel the form generally used is CHÎNQ, e.g.
| chînq hommes | five men |
| chînq armouaithes | five cupboards |
| chînq onches | five ounces |
| oulle a chînq ans | she's five |
However, before a front vowel (i.e. 'eu' especially) or 'i' followed by another vowel the form used is CHÎNTCH', e.g.
| chîntch'heuthes | five o'clock, five hours |
| chîntch'ièrs | five eyes |
It should also be noted that occasionally before a vowel the form used is CHÎN-S (with the 's' acting as liaison) e.g.
| chîn-s hommes | five men |
| chîn-s ouothelles | five ears |
| chîn-s ouaîsieaux | five birds |
| siex chent'nièrs | six centeniers |
| siex vaques | six cows |
| siex vaituthes | six cars |
| siêx heuthes | six o'clock, six hours |
| il a vîngt-siêx ans | he's twenty six |
Note that this form is also used in combined forms like vîngt-six/vîngt-siex....
| neu soudards | nine soldiers |
| neu pommièrs | nine apple-trees |
| neuf ans | nine years |
| neuf heuthes | nine o'clock, nine hours |
| dgiex mais | ten months |
| dgiex hardelles | ten girls |
| dgiex dés | ten fingers |
| il a dgiêx ans | he's ten |
| dgiêx-sept | seventeen |
| dgiêx-huit | eighteen |
| dgiêx-neuf | nineteen |
| l'amour est pus fort qué dgiêx boeufs | love is stronger than ten oxen |
When counting, the feminine form of 'one' is used, i.e. IEUNE and in combined forms like vîngt'tch'ieune (21), trente tch'ieune (31) and so on.
When not followed by a noun, iun and ieune are used to mean one:
| iun tchi 'tait là | one who was there |
| iun à iun | one by one |
| j'en acatis iun | I bought one |
| iun d'ches jours | one of these days |
| ieune d'ses fil'yes | one of her daughters |
| ieune des pus belles fil'yes | one of the prettiest girls |
But before masculine nouns, the masculine form un is used.
| un j'va | one horse |
| un ôti | one tool |
And before feminine nouns, eune is used:
| eune heuthe | one o'clock, one hour |
| eune vaque | one cow |
| eune tâssée d'thée | one cup of tea |
But combined forms follow the pattern vîngt'tch'iuns/vîngt'tch'ieunes (21), trente tch'iuns/trente tch'ieunes (31) and so on.
| vîngt'tch'iuns soudards | twenty-one soldiers |
| septante tch'iuns louis | seventy-one pounds |
| vîngt'tch'ieunes boutelles | twenty one bottles |
| chent iuns dalmâtiens | hundred and one dalmatians |
The form HUIPTANTE is often now replaced by the form QUATRE-VÎNGTS.
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