Fractional numerals can be built in several ways:
a) numerator + the preposition "on" - پٌر + denominator:
"two-thirds" - دْوَه پٌر دْرې
"three-fourths" - دْرې پٌر څَلُور
b) numerator as a cardinal numeral + denominator as an ordinal numeral:
"two-thirds" - دْوَه دْرېٌم
"three-fourths" - دْرې څَلُورٌم
c) if the numerator equals one, the words for "part" - بَرْخَه or حِصَه - are used:
"A minute is the sixtieth part of an hour." - دَقیقَه دٌ یوٌه ساعَت شْپېتٌمَه بَرْخَه دَه.
ساعت دٌ یوې وْرَڂى څَلُور ویشْتٌمَه حِصَه دَه .
"An hour is the twenty fourth part of a day."
Words such as "half" - نیم and "quarter" - پاو are also used in fractional numerals.
The word "half" - نیم is placed after the whole number:
"three and half hundred" - دْرې نیم سَوَه
The word "quarter" - پاو can be placed after a numeral (in which case it is in the indirect II case), or it can be combined with the words "less" - کَم and "above" - بانْدی :
"two quarters" - دْوَه پاوَه
"a quarter to four" - پاو کَم څَلُور
"five and a quarter" (lit. "a quarter above five") - پاو بانْدی پِنْڂٌه
The conjunction "and" is used between whole numbers and fractions:
"four and three-fifth" - څَلُور اَو دْرې پِنْڂٌم
"two and five-eighth" - دْوَه اَو پِنْڂٌه اَتٌم
In decimal fractions, the Arabic word "tenth" - 'ashāriyá عَشاریَه is used between the whole number and the decimal part, much like the English word "point":
"eight point four" - اَتٌه عَشاریَه څَلُور
"three point twenty six" - دْرې عَشاریَه شْپُږویشْت
Percents
Percents in Pashto are formed by taking the preposition "in" - پٌه + the word "hundred" in the indirect case - سٌلُو + the postposition کی + the number of the percent.
For example:
"35 %" - پٌه سٌلُو کی پِنْڂٌه دېرْش
"60 %" - پٌه سٌلُو کی شْپېتٌه
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