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Notes on the Numerals. There is another very idiomatic way of expressing the numbers above twenty-one, viz., by placing the word alone after the first numeral:&#8203;—&#8203;, 30:  is really the genitive of, so that the literal meaning of  is ten of twenty; , 30 horses; , 27 cows.

Whenever any numeral less than twenty is used by itself (i.e., not followed immediately by a noun), the particle must be used before it. This prefixes  to vowels:&#8203;—&#8203;, one;, two; , eight.
 * , it is four o'clock.
 * , it is half past two.