NUMBERS
• English dates use -th after the number: February
4th.
French dates just use the number. --> Do not add -ième
to the number.
C'est le quatre février.
• "Somethingty"-one always uses et: "(X) et un", except for 91, which omits it.
21 = vingt et un, 61 = soixante et un, 71 = soixante et onze
But: 91 = quatre vingt onze
• Count by tens until 60, then by twenties.
Note that 80 (even) ends in -s, but 81-99 uses no -s.
10s: vingt, trente, quarante, cinquante, soixante
20s: 70 = soixante-dix, 75 = soixante-quinze
80 = quatre-vingts
81 = quatre-vingt-onze, 89 = quatre-vingt-neuf
90 = quatre-vingt-dix, 96 = quatre-vingt-seize, 99 = quatre-vingt-dix-neux
• Even hundreds add -s.
From "something" hundred one to "something" hundred
ninety-nine, no -s.
deux cents,
but everything else up to 299 = deux cent
quatre-vingt-dix-neuf
• In English we often add the word "and" in hundreds: 101 =
"a hundred and one".
In French, never: 101 = cent un.