80. German Numbers

80.  German Numbers 

Answers from the last post are:

knife   =   das Messer

fork    =    die Gabel  

spoon  =   der Löffel

The German number system is very similar to the English system with one major difference. Today I am going to let you play detective in a quiz I will set after I show you the basic numbers from 1-20.

eins      zwei     drei    vier    fünf     sechs     sieben     acht     neun     zehn    
  1          2           3         4        5              6             7            8          9           10     

elf      zwölf       dreizehn      vierzehn       fünfzehn      sechzehn      siebzehn          
11         12             13                 14                  15                  16                 17            

achtzehn     neunzehn      zwanzig 

     18                19                  20

Note how the second 's' of sechs drops out in sechzehn and the 'en' of sieben in siebzehn drops out!

Now for the quiz ..... having given you the basics I am going to give you some further numbers between 21 and 100, written out in full and wonder if you can work out what the numerals are. The numbers are broken up into their respective parts but are normally joined together. Let's look at the first number. You will note the difference I mentioned in the opening paragraph on numbers in the way numbers are formed once we go past 20.

vier und dreißig    =         [            ]     vierunddreißig 

ein und neunzig    =         [            ]

sieben und achtzig    =     [            ]

neun und zwanzig    =      [            ]

zwei und siebzig        =    [             ]

acht und vierzig        =      [             ]

zwei und fünfzig       =     [             ]

sechs  und  sechzig     =   [             ]

drei und achtzig         =     [             ]

fünf und zwanzig      =     [             ]

To finish up,  choose 6 Lotto numbers between 1-20 in the spaces below. I will give you the numbers I have 'chosen'  tomorrow. See if you can write them out in German 

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