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Rh, and , together with the old words for 30, 40, 50, &c., are really nouns and can be declined.

The other words are 5th declension, and form their genitive by adding.

, a thousand, or a mile, and , a hundred never change their forms after a numeral;, 9,000, or 9 miles.

The Personal Numerals. The following numeral nouns are used especially of persons. All, with the exception of and, are compounds of the word , a man (the  of which has disappeared owing to aspiration), and the numeral adjectives.