Mar 26 (edited) • General 🗣
Numbers 70–100
Salut! Today you're tackling the most surprising part of French counting — and yes, it's a little quirky.
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Soixante-dix — Seventy (literally "sixty-ten")
Soixante et onze — Seventy-one (literally "sixty and eleven")
Soixante-douze — Seventy-two (literally "sixty-twelve")
Quatre-vingts — Eighty (literally "four-twenties")
Quatre-vingt-un — Eighty-one (literally "four-twenties-one")
Quatre-vingt-dix — Ninety (literally "four-twenties-ten")
Quatre-vingt-onze — Ninety-one (literally "four-twenties-eleven")
Cent — One hundred
French doesn't have unique words for seventy, eighty, or ninety — it builds them out of sixty and twenty instead. Strange at first, but once you get the logic it all makes sense!
Can you make a few sentences using today's words? Write them in the comments below!
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