FGL: Numbers

Numbers

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The numbers from 1 to 1000

Numbers and Pronunciations Links to an external site. - website with the German numbers and how they are pronounced.

You will need to learn the numbers up to 12. After that the numbers are formed according to rules that are quite simple:

  • The "teens" are formed by adding the suffix -zehn (10) to each of the numbers 3 to 9, but note that sechs (6) and sieben (7) you should drop the final "s" and "en"(sech- and sieb- respectively) before adding "-zehn."For example fourteen will be vier+zehn=vierzehn.
  • The words for the "tens" are generated by adding -zig. For example forty will be vier+zig = vierzig.
  • Dreißig (thirty) ends in -ßig instead of the usual -zig.
  • Numbers in the twenties and thirties and so on are written with the ones' digit first with und (and) and the tens' digit:

23 = dreiundzwanzig (three-and-twenty)

45 = fünfundvierzig (five-and-forty)

Eins (one) becomes ein when it combines with the twenties, thirties and so on: einundfünfzig, einundsechzig.

Math operations

  • plus / and = plus / und
  • minus / take away = minus / weniger
  • times / multiplied = mal / multipliziert
  • divided by = durch / dividiert

Practice Activities

Activity 1 - Numbers 1-12

Activity 2 - Die nächste Nummer? (The next number?)

Calculate what the next number in the given sequence would be; say the number/word in German to yourself and roll your mouse over the line to see the correct digit/word for each sequence.

Example: fünfzig, vierzig, dreißig:   "zwanzig"/20

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