Okay, everyone, this is where things get extra crazy. Number leaning tip: Try cooking a French recipe to help learn some French numbers as you go. After sixty-ten, or soixante-dix, you’ll keep tacking numbers ten through 19 on the end of 60 until you get to eighty, like so: (This is where that mental math that I was talking about earlier comes in.) In French, instead of having a different number for 70 like there is for 20, 30, 40, 50, and 60, you’ll use “sixty-ten” instead. Like I mentioned earlier, French counting rules start to get a little tricky with the number 70. See how many jumping jacks you can do in a minute! Numbers 70-79 in French
Learning while moving can help you remember things better with muscle memory.
Number learning tip: Try counting in French when you’re working out. The rules for numbers 20-69 are all the same, so for these numbers, you can check back to the previous list explaining 20-29 to see how each number works. See how long you have to wait and how high you can get! Numbers 30-60 in French You can do it when you’re waiting in line at the grocery store, waiting for something to cook in the microwave, or waiting for your train. Number learning tip: Anytime you’re waiting for something, try counting in French in your head. The only rule that is different from English is this: when you have numbers with the number one in the last digit, like thirty-one, you say “and one,” instead of merely “one.” For example, thirty-one would be trente et un, not trente-un. If you want to say 27, you’ll say the French word for twenty, vingt, and then the French word for 7, sept, to get vingt-sept. Once you get to 20, things get pretty calm for a while. If it were the 22nd of July, you’d write le 22 (vingt-deux) juillet. Number learning tip: Try writing out the date every day in French. “‘-Teen” is represented by the word dix, so seventeen is dix-sept, or ten-seven. When counting in French between ten and 20, the French have a version of the English suffix “-teen.” In English, this form will start at thirteen and go through nineteen, but it’ll just be seventeen to nineteen in French. Number learning tip: Copy and paste these numbers into the notes section of your phone, so you can look at it whenever you have a minute or two to spare. So you would pronounce six like “sees.”īut before you start thinking you might never even make it to 100, let’s dive into French numbers 1-10! Numbers 1-10 in French In French, the letter “x” is pronounced as an “s” when it’s at the end of a word like it is with six. Unfortunately, the pronunciation is so different that you’d never know they’re spelled the same without seeing them on paper. The only solace you might have is in the number six, which is spelled the same in English and French.
After that, you won’t be so lucky because, as we saw earlier, French numbers don’t always follow the same rules as they do in English. The good thing is that when you start to count in French, you’ll always get the first number right because zero is just zéro.
To English-speakers, it seems like a pretty illogical way to count, but for the French, it works! Then, the phrase four-twenty, or quatre-vingt, is used to represent 80. After that, you get sixty-eleven, sixty-twelve, and so on until you reach 80. Instead, the French use their number for sixty and ten, soixante and dix, to represent the number 70 as soixante-dix. In French, there is no version of what we know as 70. Everyone’s interest in the subject is due to how the French craft their numbers. But the internet also has a fascination with how the French count. Language memes have taken the internet by storm over the years, most recently with the French Google Translate memes that went viral on TikTok a few months ago. If you’re like me and spend way too much time scrolling through the internet, you might have already had some French learning on the go if you’ve ever seen one of these viral French counting memes. You might want to consider making flashcards or printing out a cheat sheet that you can look at on the go. The good thing is that if you want to learn French numbers, you just have to use a little mental math and a lot of repetition. Memorizing French numbers can be tricky, mainly because the French have a few funky counting rules.
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