![]() So the French for ‘a million people’ is un million de personnes the French for ‘three and a half million animals’ is trois millions cinq cent mille d’animaux.īillion and trillion behave the same way to million: they behave more like nouns, in that they are preceded by un or take a plural ‘s’, and are followed by de … when used with a following noun. When followed by a noun, numbers like million must be used with the preposition de. Note that millions does take an ‘s’ in the plural. So for numbers 20 to 30, we have: This is true for all numbers up to 69. The nine numbers following each of those use a similar pattern. French numbers French, Pronunciation, Number vingt, vehn, 20 trente, trahnt, 30 soixante-dix, swahz-ahnt-dees, 70 quatre-vingt, katr-vehn, 80. After the million comes the remainder of the number without any intervening word for ‘and’: 1000650 = un million six cent cinquante, 4008000 = quatre millions huit mille. Counting from 20 to 69 in French The numbers between 20 and 69 follow the same pattern as the first 19 numbers, but we need to memorize each multiple of 10 first. The French for ‘million’ is million ‘a million’ translates literally as un million. So: 1000 = mille, 2000 = deux mille, 2001 = deux mille un, 3079 = trois mille soixante-dix-neuf. This word never adds an -s, and there is never a word for ‘and’ between the thousands and the hundreds/tens/units. Notice that in French there is no word for ‘and’ between the hundreds and the tens/units, unlike in English, and that “a hundred” is just cent, not un cent. If the number is not an exact multiple of 100, then the number representing the last two digits follows cent, which loses its -s: 101 = cent un, 201 = deux cent un, 202 = deux cent deux etc. For numbers from 16-19, take the rightmost digit and say dix + (digit). To say numbers in the hundreds and thousands, simply use the numbers you have already learned until now, followed by cent for 100, and mille for 1000. ![]() Multiples of a hundred are deux cents, trois cents etc with an -s on cents. ![]() Number 90 is basically four twenties and ten = quatre-vingt-dix, 91 = quatre-vingt-onze etc. Numbers 81-99 consist of quatre-vingt- (minus the -s) plus a number 1-19: 81 = quatre-vingt-un, 82 = quatre-vingt-deux, Number eighty is four twenties = quatre-vingts. Notice the et in 71 which mirrors the behaviour of 21, 31 etc. Number 70 is basically 60+10 = soixante-dix, 71 = soixante et onze, 72 = soixante-douze, 73 = soixante-treize etc. If the unit is a 1, then the word et is inserted between tens and units: 21 = vingt et un, 31 = trente et un etc. So, 22 = vingt-deux, 45 = quarante-cinq etc. The table below that gives you the numbers in English, French and advises how to pronounce them. French number translation – don’t let those numbers flummox you when you have to spell them, for instance writing a cheque in France or filling in forms.
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