Deutsch · A1 · vocabulary · 4 minutes
Numbers 0–100
Build prices, ages, phone numbers, and times from reusable number blocks.
Understand the choice
German reverses the spoken order of compound two-digit numbers. Hear the unit first, hold und, then finish with the tens; prices and addresses make this pattern practical immediately.
Core rule: From 21 to 99, say the unit + und + the tens: vier-und-zwanzig.
Notice it in context
Das Buch kostet vierundzwanzig Euro.
The book costs twenty-four euros.
Vierundzwanzig literally orders four-and-twenty; Euro has no plural ending after a number in this use.
Meine Oma ist siebzig Jahre alt.
My grandmother is seventy years old.
Siebzig loses the -en heard in sieben.
Der Bus kommt um dreißig Minuten später.
The bus arrives thirty minutes later.
Dreißig supplies a duration with plural Minuten.
What to remember
- Sechzehn drops the s of sechs; siebzehn drops -en from sieben.
- German writes compound numbers below one million as one word.
Common trap: Do not read 24 as zwanzig-vier. German says vierundzwanzig.