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Woodward French
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Numbers from 1 to 100 in French | Woodward French
November 17, 2019 - The numbers from 1 to 100 in French including a summary chart. Les nombres de 1 à 100 en français.
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Pressbooks
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4.4 Les Nombres 60-100 – Introduction to French
August 16, 2017 - In most French-speaking countries, including France, Canada, and former French colonies in Africa and the Caribbean, numbers from 60 to 100 are counted by 20s instead of by 10s. This is generally considered to be a remnant of the Celtic language ...
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Rosetta Stone
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Learn French Numbers 1-100 With French Counting Tips - Rosetta Stone
May 22, 2024 - Like 17, 70 is a magic number in French when the rules start to change. Instead of having a unique name for 70 like there is for 20, 30, 40, 50, and 60, you’ll use soixante (sixty) and dix (ten) because 60+10=70.
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Leaflanguages
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French Vocabulary: Numbers 60-100 : The LEAF Project
Remember that the French word for sixty (60) is soixante. The first part of the numbers from 70-79 start with soixante (60) followed by dix, onze, douze, treize, etc. Don’t forget that spelling counts, and pay attention to hyphens! NOTE #1 : We use the word et in between the tens spot and the ones spot in 21, 31, 41, 51, 61, and 71.
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Busuu
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French Numbers: How to Count From 1 to 100 - Busuu
See, counting to 100 in French includes doing a little math! Fortunately, once you have it down, it makes remembering the names of the numbers fairly straightforward. Check it out. So, as you can see, 70 becomes soixante-dix, 60-10, 71 is soixante-et-onze, 60-and-11, and so on up to 80.
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Quora
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What is the origin of the French counting from 60 to 100 in twenties? - Quora
Answer (1 of 6): French is not the only language that uses a non-base-10 counting system [1] So, as odd as it seems, it isn’t the only case in the world where numbers are enumerated a little differently from what you may be accustomed in your native tongue. But, why? This goes back to my days...
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Quia
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Quia - French Numbers 60-100
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Sprachcaffe
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French Numbers from 1 to 100 and Beyond | Sprachcaffe
How can I count from 1 to 100 in French? Start by memorizing the multiples of ten: vingt (20), trente (30), quarante (40), cinquante (50), and soixante (60).
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Study.com
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French Numbers 1-100 | Study.com
The numbers 40 and 60 used to be: 40 = ''2 20'' or deux-vingts, short for ''2 times 20'' and 60 = ''3 20'' or trois-vingts, short for ''3 times 20''. The number 80 remains the same to this day: ''4 20'', or quatre-vingts.
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Pressbooks
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4.6 Les Nombres 60 à 100 – Introduction to French (2nd ed.)
August 16, 2017 - In most French-speaking countries, including France, Canada, and former French colonies in Africa and the Caribbean, numbers from 60 to 100 are counted by 20s instead of by 10s. This is generally considered to be a remnant of the Celtic language ...
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Quizlet
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french numbers 60 - 100 Flashcards | Quizlet
Log in · Save · 4.6 (27 reviews) Get a hint · 60 · soixante · 1 / 41 · 1 / 41 · Created by · 3boysandablonde · 星期十一 · 52 terms · June_Stancil7 · Preview · A10. Redoxné reakcie a elektrochémia · 11 terms · VictoriaShenk · Preview · Things around us pt.11 ·
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Vidalingua
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French Numbers to Count from 1 to 100
20 - VINGT 30 - TRENTE 40 - QUARANTE 50 - CINQUANTE 60 - SOIXANTE 70 - SOIXANTE-DIX (SIXTY-TEN) or SEPTANTE (Belgium, Switzerland) 80 - QUATRE-VINGTS (FOUR-TWENTIES) or HUITANTE / OCTANTE (Belgium, Switzerland) 90 - QUATRE-VINGT-DIX (FOUR-TWENTY-TEN) or NONANTE (Belgium, Switzerland) We can clearly see that, in France, French numbers get a bit weird from 70 onwards.
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WordWall
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French Numbers 60 100 - Teaching resources
Numbers 100-10000 in French Match up · by Adrianastan · 9 · Numbers 60-100: patterns Match up · by Handysidel · 2 · LES NOMBRES 60-100 Wordsearch · by Dcastillo5 · French · F1 L1 French Numbers 0-60 Whack-a-mole · by Cbuss · 22 · Faire de ou Jouer à ???? Group sort · by Annhaddon · French French 1 French 2 54 ·
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Frenchlessonsaustralia
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Learn how to say French Numbers 1 - 100 (with audio)
March 12, 2024 - Therefore, in a very logical way, French people put number sixty next to number ten to create seventy! Soixante (60) plus dix (10) → soixante-dix (70). – Same sort of thinking with quatre-vingts.
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ThoughtCo
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Learn to Count in French with French Cardinal Numbers
May 7, 2025 - In French, 100 to 999 work just like in English: just say how many hundreds and then add the other numbers. Note that when cent is at the end of the number, it takes an s, but when it's followed by another number, the s is dropped. 100 cent 101 cent un 125 cent vingt-cinq 200 deux cents 201 deux cent un 243 deux cent quarante-trois 1,000+ are also similar to English, but there are a few things to note:
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Twinkl
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Numbers in French: From 1 to 1000 - Twinkl
3 weeks ago - Numbers from 100 to 199 follow an easy and familar structure where you use the word "cent" (hundred) followed by the number (as learned in the above sections). For example: ... When learning numbers 200-999, the trick to remember is that you combine the hundreds digit aka "cent" (deux cents for 200, trois cents for 300, quatre cents for 400, etc.) with the relevant number in tens and units. For example: ... The word for 1000 in French is "Mille".
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Reddit
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r/French on Reddit: Is there any history why French has odd numbering after 60 till 100?
November 14, 2023 -

I just was wondering why French do not have a normal system of counting after 60 till 100. So turns out they say quatre-vingt-douze which is 4*20+12. What is the history behind this practice?

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The celtic number system before Roman invasion was based on 20 rather than 10. So peoples started to transpose this way of numbering with the latin names. And many different ways to describe the same number cohabited. And generally, it didn't really matter as before Arabic digits, the way of writing numbers was also all over the place. With the arrival of Arabic digits, especially the zero, most cultures progressively regularised their number system around the number 10 in order to match the new digit-based notation. In France, this change was successful for low numbers that are commonly used, but failed to change the tradition on higher numbers. And this resistance was made worse by the very conservative approach to language of the third republic (end of the 19th century), who wanted "one nation, one language" and would not tolerate any variation from the established norm. A lot of French-speaking peoples that aren't French (Belgium, Quebec EDIT: it seems not Quebec, Switzerland, etc) frequently use "nonante deux" instead of "quatre-vingt douze", in part because the language had more time to continue its natural evolution without being set in stone.
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Both decimal and vigesimal counting were used interchangeably in medieval and early French, in much the same way as you use both fifteen hundred and one thousand five hundred for 1500 in English. Latin was firmly decimal, but vigesimal counting is known from almost the whole Romance continuum except in Romanian. It's particularly common in Southern Italy (Sicilian du vintini e ddèci, 30) and in Gallo-Romance, but there's scattered attestation in Iberia and Northern Italy too. Vigesimal forms seem to have been used most often for counting agricultural produces and for ages. There are some dialectal differences visible in the modern Gallo-Romance language continuum, with the vigesimal system being most popular near the Atlantic coast and around the Paris Basin, while the decimal system is more common along the eastern border and the south, especially the south-east. This use of a vigesimal system isn't unusual for an European languages either, Danish, Basque, Albanian and modern Irish all use partly or wholly vigesimal counting, and it was present as an option in English ("Four score and seven years ago"). You sometimes read that vigesimal counting entered French by Gaulish influence because the modern Celtic languages use vigesimal counting, but that's a myth: the only higher number preserved in Gaulish is decimal, and Old Irish used decimal too, and the pattern in Romance doesn't match contact with Celtic (You'd expect France, Spain and Northern Italy to use vigesimal the most and Southern Italy and Romania the least if that was the case) The timing doesn't match either: Old French started out firmly decimal, until vigesimal numbers started to appear in the 12th century, then peaked in the 16th century and the first decades of the 17th century and started to become less used after that. During that decline, vigesimal numbers were judged by contemporary description as being more rustic and popular while decimal numbers were the domain of learned people (you can see that in the pronunciation of septante (70), with a restored /p/ that had disappeared in speech, or in the variant huitante and octante (80), with the second being a learned borrowing from Latin and the first the everyday word) The current system, using either decimal or vigesimal depending on the number, rather than both interchangeably, is the result of standardisation and mandatory schooling and was established in the early 19th century. It uses mostly the more prestigious decimal system with a few vigesimal relics in the less used higher decads, reflecting language trends at the time. Different countries standardised slightly differently, hence why you find septante and nonante in Belgium and Switzerland but not in France or Canada (except very locally in Acadia where no standardisation took place until recently).
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Tandem
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Numbers in French
However, with a little practice, you’ll be able to add these to your list and successfully pronounce the French numbers 1 to 100 (and 0, of course!). So, let’s take a look at the French numbers 70 to 79 and how they’re formed.
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WordWall
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French Numbers In 1 60 - Teaching resources
French Numbers 60-100 - French numbers 1 to 60 - French numbers 1 to 60 - French numbers 1 to 60 - Faire de ou Jouer à ???? - F1 L1 French Numbers 0-60
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LingoCulture
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French Numbers 1-100: Learn how to count in French
February 22, 2024 - We saw that the tens from 20 to 60 are also single words, whereas 70, 80, and 90 are again compound numbers! Fortunately the French numbers 1-100 all follow a straightforward pattern from these basics, so with a bit of practice you’ll soon confidently know how to count in French.