This time, I think I'll go over a few different things. In addition to covering the rest of the numerals, I'll also talk about how to make yes/no questions in Malayalam. I'll also start talking about the future tense.
First, let's finish up the numbers. The word for 900 in Malayalam is തൊള്ളായിരം
thoLLaayiram, i.e. 100 away from one thousand. If you want to combine it with another number, you say തൊള്ളായിരത്തി-
thoLLaayiraththi-. For example, 901 in Malayalam is തൊള്ളായിരത്തിയൊന്ന്
thoLLaayiraththiyonn(u).
1,000 is ആയിരം
aayiram, so the same as 900 without the
thoLL part at the beginning.

Most of the thousands are formed in a pretty predictable way, but some of them are not entirely predictable, so here are all of the thousands:
2,000 is രണ്ടായിരം
raNTaayiram, just a combination of the words for 'two' and 'thousand'.
3,000 is മൂവായിരം
muuvaayiram.
4,000 is നാലായിരം
naalaayiram, just formed from 'four' and 'thousand', just like 2,000 was formed from 'two' and 'thousand'. The only other numeral like this is 6,000.
5,000 is അയ്യായിരം
ayyaayiram.
6,000 is ആറായിരം
aarraayiram.
7,000- ഏഴായിരം
Ezhaayiram8,000- എള്ളായിരം
ellaayiram9,000- ഒൻപത്തായിരം
onpaththaayiram10,000- പത്തായിരം
paththaayiram11,000- പതിനോരായിരം
pathinOraayiram12,000- പന്തീരായിരം
panthiiraayiramThe rest of the thousands are pretty straightforward and regular, although remember the forms for 3,000, etc. (but not 9,000!), which are also used here:
13,000- പതിമൂവായിരം
pathimuuvaayiram14,000- പതിനാലായിരം
pathinaalaayiram15,000- പതിനയ്യായിരം
pathinayyaayiram16,000- പതിനാറായിരം
pathinaarraayiram17,000- പതിനേഴായിരം
pathinEzhaayiram18,000- പതിനെള്ളായിരം
pathineLLaayiram19,000- പതിനൊൻപത്തായിരം
pathinonpaththaayiram20,000- ഇരുപത്തായിരം
irupaththaayiram21,000- ഇരുപത്തിയൊന്നായിരം
irupaththiyonnaayiram22,000- ഇരുപത്തിരണ്ടായിരം
irupaththiraNTaayiram23,000- ഇരുപത്തിമൂവായിരം
irupaththimuuvaayiram24,000- ഇരുപത്തിനാലായിരം
irupaththinaalaayiram25,000- ഇരുപത്തിയയ്യായിരം
irupaththiyayyaayiram26,000- ഇരുപത്തിയാറായിരം
irupaththiyaarraayiram27,000- ഇരുപത്തിയേഴായിരം
irupaththiyEzhaayiram28,000- ഇരുപത്തിയെള്ളായിരം
irupaththiyeLLaayiram29,000- ഇരുപത്തിയൊൻപത്തായിരം
irupaththiyonpaththaayiram30,000- മുപ്പത്തായിരം
muppaththaayiramThe words for 31,000, 32,000, etc. are formed just like the ones for 21,000, except instead of conjoining words with ഇരുപത്തി-
irupaththi-, you stick them to മുപ്പത്തി-
muppaththi-. The same goes for all these other numbers:
40,000- നാല്പത്തായിരം
naalpaththaayiram50,000- അൻപത്തായിരം
anpaththaayiram60,000- അറുപത്തായിരം
arrupaththaayiram70,000- എഴുപത്തായിരം
ezhupaththaayiram80,000- എണ്പത്തായിരം
eNpaththaayiram90,000- തൊണ്ണൂറായിരം
thoNNuurraayiramFinally, there's a special word for 100,000 (in all Indian languages, not just Malayalam. In Indian English, it's "lakh" or "lac"). In Malayalam, the word for 100,000 or "one lakh/lac" is ഒരു ലക്ഷം
oru laksham. The word for 100,001 is just ഒരു ലക്ഷം ഒന്ന്
oru laksham onn(u), because after the word ലക്ഷം
laksham, you can just add any number to that; the word itself doesn't change. 200,000 is രണ്ട് ലക്ഷം
raNT(u) laksham.
One million is ten lakhs or പത്ത് ലക്ഷം
pathth(u) laksham. There's also a special word for 10,000,000 (ten million), and that's what they call "crore" in Indian English. In Malayalam, the word for ten million/one crore is ഒരു കോടി
oru kOTi. It works just like ലക്ഷം
laksham, so 10,000,001 is ഒരു കോടി ഒന്ന്
oru kOTi onn(u), etc.
Finally, the word for 'trillion' in Malayalam is ലക്ഷംകോടി
lakshamkOTi, literally 'one lakh crores' (because one hundred thousand times ten million is a trillion

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So by now, in addition to covering the numbers, we've talked about making various verb forms and even some question words, but we never talked about how to make yes/no questions. In this lesson, we can talk about how to do that.
Generally, the way you make a yes/no question in Malayalam is pretty easy; you just take a statement, and to make it into a yes/no question, you replace the last vowel on the verb with -ഓ -
O. This works with all positive verbs (i.e. verbs that aren't negated). For example, അവർ പോയി
avar pOyi means 'they went', but to say 'did they go?' you'd say അവർ പോയോ?
avar pOyO?Now, if the verb is negated, as we saw earlier, it will end in either അല്ല
alla or ഇല്ല
illa. If you want to make these into questions, you replace the last vowel with -ഏ -
E instead. അല്ലേ?
allE? means something like 'isn't it?' and the negative form for ഇല്ല
illa is ഇല്ലേ
illE.
So for example, in that clip from
Chemmeen I posted last year, the first thing Pareekkutty asks is വള്ളത്തിലെ മീനെല്ലാം എനിക്കല്ലേ?
vaLLaththile miinellaam enikkallE? 'Aren't all the fish in the boat for me?' The എനിക്കല്ലേ?
enikkallE? part means something like 'aren't they for me?' Then when she doesn't say anything, he asks, മിണ്ടൂല്ലേ?
miNDuullE? 'Won't you say anything to me?' The -ല്ലേ -
llE there is short for ഇല്ലേ
illE. His next question after that is എന്നോട് ഇഷ്ടമാണോ?
ennOT ishTamaaNO?. Of course, that means 'do (you) like me?'
We've also talked about both the present progressive and the past tense, but we never talked about the future tense, which is pretty much the only tense used in that dialog.

That's because the future tense is a bit complicated in Malayalam. For example, there are a few different ways of saying "I will go" depending on what exactly you mean. Do you mean "I
promise I will go. I'm practically willing to stake my life on this promise!" or do you just mean "well, I'll
go, but don't hold your breath or anything!"? Or do you mean something else like "oh, all right, quit whining! I'll go already"? There's a different verb form for each of those.
So there's one way of expressing that something will definitely happen in the future. To make a verb that expresses this, you add -ഉം -
um to the verb stem. For example, 'to see' in Malayalam is കാണുക
kaaNuka (as we saw earlier), and 'will see' (in this sense) is കാണും
kaaNum. So in the dialog from
Chemmeen, when Karuthamma says, "വല്ലവരും കാണും (
vallavarum kaaNum 'somebody will see')," she's saying that somebody will definitely see them together near the pond if they hang around there too long.
This is also the verb form you use for expressing that something happens regularly/habitually in the present tense. For example, if you wanted to say "I always see them," you would say ഞാൻ അവരെ എപ്പോഴും കാണും
njaan avare eppOzhum kaaNum. (എപ്പോഴും
eppOzhum means 'always' and is usually pronounced more like
(y)eppuzhum).
Next time, I'll talk about making the negated forms of these future tense verbs, such as Pareekkutty's line മിണ്ടൂല്ലേ?
miNTuullE? 'Won't (you) talk (to me)?'
