Numbers 21 to 69 Lesson 7 of the french course of Mova's primary school: 16 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: the lesson at school .
0 Once you know the tens, French numbers up to 69 are like Lego: take a ten, click on a unit with a hyphen, and you have a number. 1 The tens are vingt (20), trente (30), quarante (40), cinquante (50) and soixante (60); the last four all end in -ante or -ente. 2 The ones are special: 21, 31, 41, 51 and 61 say "and one", so 21 is vingt et un, while 22 is just vingt-deux. 3 Picture a bus in Dublin: Liam calls it "trente-un" and the French driver laughs, "Trente et un, mon grand!" 4 For your age, French uses "have", not "be": j'ai neuf ans means "I am nine", but word for word "I have nine years". 5 The tens: vingt ("van") 20, trente ("trahnt") 30, quarante ("ka-RAHNT") 40, cinquante ("sank-AHNT") 50, soixante ("swa-SAHNT") 60. 6 In soixante the x sounds like s. 7 21, 31, 41, 51 and 61 use et un: vingt et un, trente et un, quarante et un, cinquante et un, soixante et un. 8 The other numbers just join the ten and the unit with a hyphen: vingt-deux (22), trente-quatre (34), quarante-quatre (44), soixante-cinq (65). 9 In quarante and quatre, qu says "k", with no w: quarante-quatre is "ka-rahnt-KATR". 11 Prices are said as euros then cents, often without the word cents: un euro vingt is €1.20; euro takes an s for more than one: deux euros. 12 J'ai neuf ans means "I am nine"; je suis neuf would mean "I am new". 13 Combien ? means "how many?" or "how much?"; Tu as combien de bonbons ? means "How many sweets have you got?" and wants a number for an answer. 14 Un numéro is a number on a shirt, a bus, a house or a ticket: le numéro vingt-trois is number 23. 15 seize is 16 but soixante is 60; the longer word is the bigger number. 16 Slang here: "canny" (Newcastle) means very or nice; "no cap" means honestly; "our kid" (Manchester) means my brother or sister; "bare" (London) means lots of; "boss" (Liverpool) means great; "heaps" (Australia) means very; "y'all" (Texas) means you all. ← previous Numbers 0 to 20next → Numbers 70 to 100: soixante-dix and quatre-vingts↑ back to French This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/7-numbers-21-to-69/