Friday, September 20, 2013

French - counting to ninety nine


We just learned how to count to 89 in French, let's keep going!

Just like seventy was really sixty-ten and eighty was four-twenties, ninety is also a little different.
The word for ninety is quatre-vingt dix which means four-twenties ten because 20 times 4 is 80, plus 10 is 90!

90 quatre-vingts dix - sounds like cat-uh-ah vah-n dee /?/
91 quatre-vingt onze - sounds like cat-uh-ah vah owns /?/
92 quatre-vingt douze - sounds like cat-uh-ah vah dooz /?/
93 quatre-vingt treize - sounds like cat-uh-ah vah tuh-ay-z /?/
94 quatre-vingt quatorze - sounds like cat-uh-ah vah cay-tow-z /?/
95 quatre-vingt quinze - sounds like cat-uh-ah vah cay-unz /?/
96 quatre-vingt seize - sounds like cat-uh-ah vah sez /?/
97 quatre-vingt dix sept - sounds like cat-uh-ah vah dee set /?/
98 quatre-vingt dix huit - sounds like cat-uh-ah vah dee oo-ee /?/
99 quatre-vingt dix neuf - sounds like cat-uh-ah vah dee nef /?/

Organisation internationale de la Francophonie
(from: wikipedia - OIF)