How do you count 1 to 10 in Tagalog?

Isa, dalawa, tatlo, apat, lima, anim, pito, walo, siyam, sampu. These are the native numbers, used for counting objects and people.

Why does Tagalog have two sets of numbers?

Three centuries of Spanish rule added a second set. The native numbers survived for counting; the Spanish-derived ones took over telling the time, quoting prices and giving ages. Both are in daily use.

Which Tagalog numbers do I use for money?

The Spanish-derived ones. A price is quoted as singkwenta rather than limampu, and a time as alas dos rather than ala dalawa.

How do you say 100 in Tagalog?

Isang daan in the native system, siyento in the Spanish-derived one.

Tagalog numbers

Tagalog has two complete sets of numbers and uses both every day. Which one you need depends on what you are counting.

The native numbers

These count things. How many mangoes, how many people, how many days. This is the set schoolchildren learn first and the one you want if you are only learning one.

#	Tagalog
1	isaPlay
2	dalawaPlay
3	tatloPlay
4	apatPlay
5	limaPlay
6	animPlay
7	pitoPlay
8	waloPlay
9	siyamPlay
10	sampuPlay
11	labing-isaPlay
12	labindalawaPlay
13	labintatloPlay
14	labing-apatPlay
15	labinlimaPlay
16	labing-animPlay
17	labimpitoPlay
18	labingwaloPlay
19	labinsiyamPlay
20	dalawampuPlay
30	tatlumpuPlay
40	apatnapuPlay
50	limampuPlay
60	animnapuPlay
70	pitumpuPlay
80	walumpuPlay
90	siyamnapuPlay
100	isang daanPlay

The Spanish-derived numbers

These do money, clock time and ages. Ask a price in a market and the answer comes back in this set, which is why a learner who only knows the native numbers can count to a hundred and still not understand what the mango costs.

#	Tagalog
1	unoPlay
2	dosPlay
3	tresPlay
4	kwatroPlay
5	singkoPlay
6	saisPlay
7	siyetePlay
8	otsoPlay
9	nuwebePlay
10	diyesPlay
20	beyntePlay
50	singkwentaPlay
100	siyentoPlay

Which one, when

Counting objects and people: native. Tatlong mangga, three mangoes.
Money: Spanish-derived. Singkwenta pesos, fifty pesos.
Telling the time: Spanish-derived, with alas in front. Alas dos, two o'clock.
Age: usually Spanish-derived for adults, native for young children.
Phone numbers and addresses: usually English, which is the third system nobody mentions.

English numbers are extremely common in conversation, especially for anything long. Nobody will find it strange if you fall back to English for a phone number or a large price, and Filipinos do it constantly themselves.

Counting things

To attach a number to a noun, Tagalog links them with -ng or na: isang mangga, one mango; dalawang mangga, two mangoes; apat na mangga, four mangoes. The linker takes -ng after a vowel and na after a consonant.

Asking for a price

Rank	Tagalog	What it does	Register
16	Magkano?Play	How much is it?	neutral
48	Ang mahal naman!Play	That's so expensive!	casual
47	Pwede bang tumawad?Play	Can I haggle?Fine in a market, not in a shop with price tags.	neutral
49	Isa nga po nitoPlay	One of these, please	polite

Start with the free sectionThe six words that run the language — Tagalog puts a little word in front of every noun to show what it is doing. There are only six of them. No account, nothing to install.

The frequency ordering on this site is an informed estimate, not a corpus count. There is no published frequency count for conversational Tagalog, so it prints a rank and never a percentage. When a real count exists, the order changes and this line changes with it.

It teaches Tagalog as spoken around Manila, which is not the same thing as Filipino and is not the whole country. Cebuano and Ilocano are different languages, not accents.

Nothing is drilled until a native speaker has checked it. What has been checked, by whom, and what is still owed is written down on the sources page.