CAS LF 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Sept, Wordpress.Com
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Numbers in french basically follow the same pattern as in english. The exception is the numbers between 70-99, but they"re still pretty simple. For the #"s 21-69, it"s a very simple breakdown. There"s the tens unit and the ones unit, just like in. 21 vingt-et-un (for all the one"s , one adds in an et ) 22 vingt deux (literally the word for twenty and the word for two just like in english) 23 vingt trois (vingt = 20, trois = 3) 70 is soixante-dix which translates to sixty-ten. 71 naturally is soixante-onze which translates to sixty-eleven. 73 soixante-treize sixty-thirteen (see the pattern?) The 80 s follow the standard (tens and ones) pattern. The 90 s go back to the goofy 70 s pattern. 100 cent (plain old cent not un cent) 1,000 mille (plain old mille not une mille) Everything else is exactly like the english pattern of doing number.
