Nonante for 90 instead of Quatre-vingt-dix.
Octante or Huitante for 80 instead of Quatre-vingts (only in Switzerland). They will instead follow the usual pattern as from 20 to 60 and use : In French-speaking Belgium and Switzerland, people don’t say “soixante-dix, quatre-vingts, quatre-vingt-dix”.
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Try LingoDeer for FREE Fun Facts About Numbers in French If you want to do more exercises with numbers-related expressions, or even other French expressions that will come in handy, check out the LingoDeer app ( Android/ iOS) for the free Travel Phrasebook course! Regarding the “s” at the end of “quatre-vingts”, it only applies when “quatre-vingts” is not followed by any other numeral: quatre-vingt s for 80, quatre-vingt-trois for 83. Notice that “ quatre-vingt-un ” does not add an extra “et” before “un”? Yep, it’s an exception. 99 - Quatre-vingt-dix-neuf (four-twenty-ten-nine).98 - Quatre-vingt-dix-huit (four-twenty-ten-eight).97 - Quatre-vingt-dix-sept (four-twenty-ten-seven).96 - Quatre-vingt-seize (four-twenty-sixteen).95 - Quatre-vingt-quinze (four-twenty-fifteen).94 - Quatre-vingt-quatorze (four-twenty-fourteen).93 - Quatre-vingt-treize (four-twenty-thirteen).92 - Quatre-vingt-douze (four-twenty-twelve).91 - Quatre-vingt-onze (four-twenty-eleven).90 - Quatre-vingt-dix (four-twenty-ten).89 - Quatre-vingt-neuf (four-twenty-nine).88 - Quatre-vingt-huit (four-twenty-eight).87 - Quatre-vingt-sept (four-twenty-seven).86 - Quatre-vingt-six (four-twenty-six).85 - Quatre-vingt-cinq (four-twenty-five).84 - Quatre-vingt-quatre (four-twenty-four).83 - Quatre-vingt-trois (four-twenty-three).82 - Quatre-vingt-deux (four-twenty-two).81 - Quatre-vingt-un (four-twenty-one) (no “et”).Now, similar to counting from 61-79, counting from 81 to 99 in French is done by adding 1-19 to 80. 79 - Soixante-dix-neuf ( sixty-ten-nine).78 - Soixante-dix-huit (sixty-ten-eight).77 - Soixante-dix-sept (sixty-ten-seven).74 - Soixante-quatorze (sixty-fourteen).71 - Soixante-et-onze (sixty-and-eleven).Super easy addition based on “soixante (60)” is involved. Let’s take a closer look in the next section. Well, once you reach 70, the pattern changes. The image below summarizes this group of numbers. For example, 22 is vingt-deux instead of vingt et deux. Everything else: replace “et” with “-“.
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When to use the Hyphens in French NumbersĪre you wondering if there’s an easy way to memorize the use of hyphens in numbers? (1972) Underside of pandanus leaf used for children's counting game. Image number: TR1791-213v000r001ĪIATSIS Online Exhibition: Ethnomathmatics in Australia.When you are counting from 10 to 19 in French, you can now see two types of numbers: independent and composed numbers.Īs you might have noticed, from 17 to 19 (dix-sept, dix-huit, dix-neuf) we have the first glance of composed numbers. (1983) Linguistic Survey of South-Eastern Queensland. (1987) "Australian Aboriginal and Islander Mathematics" in Australian Aboriginal Studies, 1987, No. (1908) Reports of the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Straits. (1998) Yuwaalayaay, the language of the Narran River. (1887) The Australian Race: its origins, languages, customs, place of landing in Australia and the routes by which it spread itself over that continent. (1873) “Vocabulary of Aboriginal Dialects of Queensland”, The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, 1873, Vol.2, pp.165-175.īlake, B. State Library of Queensland Indigenous Languages webpagesīarlow, H. Indigenous Languages Coordinator, Queensland Memory State Library would love to hear from Indigenous groups or language workers and some of the language activities they may be doing around numbers.