Numerals are either (a) Cardinal, expressing pure number, one, two, three; or (b) Ordinal, expressing rank or succession, first, second, third.

(a) Cardinals.

[89.]

The Cardinals fall into the three following syntactic groups:

Group I.

1. ān

2. twēgen [twain]

3. ðrīe

These numerals are inflected adjectives. Ān, one, an, a, being a long stemmed monosyllable, is declined like gōd (80]). The weak form, āna, means alone.

Twēgen and ðrīe, which have no singular, are thus declined: