Lingard
French numbers from zero to a million with pronunciation, translation and an example sentence each: the teens, the tens, the hundreds and how they combine.
Get started for freeNumbers come up in prices, times, phone numbers and ages. Here are zero to twenty, the tens, the hundreds, a thousand and a million, each with its pronunciation and an example sentence. Every other number is built from these.
le zéro[lə zeʁo]zero
Mon numéro de téléphone commence par un zéro.
My phone number starts with a zero.
un[œ̃]one
Il y a un chat dans le jardin.
There is one cat in the garden.
deux[dø]two
J'ai deux frères.
I have two brothers.
trois[tʁwa]three
Elle a trois chiens.
She has three dogs.
quatre[katʁ]four
Une table a quatre pieds.
A table has four legs.
cinq[sɛ̃k]five
Il y a cinq personnes dans la pièce.
There are five people in the room.
six[sis]six
Il a six ans.
He is six years old.
sept[sɛt]seven
Une semaine a sept jours.
A week has seven days.
huit[ɥit]eight
Il y a huit chaises dans la pièce.
There are eight chairs in the room.
neuf[nœf]nine
Elle a neuf livres dans son sac.
She has nine books in her bag.
dix[dis]ten
Il a dix doigts.
He has ten fingers.
onze[ɔ̃z]eleven
Il a onze ans.
He is eleven years old.
douze[duz]twelve
Il y a douze mois dans une année.
There are twelve months in a year.
treize[tʁɛz]thirteen
Le groupe compte treize personnes.
The group has thirteen people.
quatorze[katɔʁz]fourteen
Le voyage dure quatorze jours.
The trip lasts fourteen days.
quinze[kɛ̃z]fifteen
Il y a quinze minutes dans un quart d'heure.
There are fifteen minutes in a quarter of an hour.
seize[sɛz]sixteen
Il a seize ans.
He is sixteen years old.
dix-sept[disɛt]seventeen
Il y a dix-sept élèves dans la classe.
There are seventeen pupils in the class.
dix-huit[dizɥit]eighteen
Il a dix-huit ans.
He is eighteen years old.
dix-neuf[diznœf]nineteen
Il a dix-neuf ans.
He is nineteen years old.
vingt[vɛ̃]twenty
Il a vingt ans.
He is twenty years old.
vingt et un[vɛ̃ te œ̃]twenty-one
Ma sœur a vingt et un ans.
My sister is twenty-one years old.
trente[tʁɑ̃t]thirty
Il a trente ans.
He is thirty years old.
quarante[kaʁɑ̃t]forty
Il a quarante ans.
He is forty years old.
cinquante[sɛ̃kɑ̃t]fifty
Il a cinquante ans.
He is fifty years old.
soixante[swasɑ̃t]sixty
Il a soixante ans.
He is sixty years old.
soixante-dix[swasɑ̃tdis]seventy
Il a soixante-dix ans.
He is seventy years old.
soixante et onze[swasɑ̃ te ɔ̃z]seventy-one
Mon grand-père a soixante et onze ans.
My grandfather is seventy-one years old.
quatre-vingts[katʁəvɛ̃]eighty
Il a quatre-vingts ans.
He is eighty years old.
quatre-vingt-un[katʁə vɛ̃ œ̃]eighty-one
Mon arrière-grand-mère a quatre-vingt-un ans.
My great-grandmother is eighty-one years old.
quatre-vingt-dix[katʁəvɛ̃dis]ninety
Il a quatre-vingt-dix ans.
He is ninety years old.
cent[sɑ̃]hundred
Ce livre a cent pages.
This book has a hundred pages.
mille[mil]thousand
Ce vélo coûte mille euros.
This bike costs a thousand euros.
le million[lə miljɔ̃]million
Deux millions de personnes habitent dans cette ville.
Two million people live in this city.
le milliard[lə miljaʁ]billion
La Terre compte plus de huit milliards d'habitants.
The Earth has more than eight billion inhabitants.
le nombre[lə nɔ̃bʁ]number
Sept est mon nombre préféré.
Seven is my favourite number.
le chiffre[lə ʃifʁ]digit; figure
Le nombre 25 a deux chiffres.
The number 25 has two digits.
la douzaine[la duzɛn]dozen
J'achète une douzaine d'œufs.
I'm buying a dozen eggs.
From seventy, French counts in twenties: 70 is soixante-dix, sixty-ten, and 80 is quatre-vingts, four twenties. Belgium and Switzerland say septante and nonante instead, and parts of Switzerland also huitante.
21, 31, 41, 51 and 61 take et: vingt et un. The other compound numbers below a hundred are joined with hyphens: vingt-deux.
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