Today, we breezed through numbers. Reminders on counting in German:
1. Digits and numbers from zero to twelve are specific words: eins (1), zwei (2), drei (3), vier (4), fünf (5), sechs (6), sieben (7), acht (8), neun (9), zehn (10), elf (11), and zwölf (12)
2. From thirteen to nineteen, the numbers are formed, adding the word for ten (zehn), except for sechzehn and siebzehn, where -s and -en must be dropped
3. The tens are formed by adding the suffix -zig at the end of the digits. Take note though that thirty, sixty and seventy are irregular: dreißig (30) *-zig becomes -ßig, vierzig (40), fünfzig (50), sechzig (60) *drop the -s from sechs, siebzig (70) *drop the -en from sieben, achtzig (80), and neunzig (90)
4. From twenty-one to ninety-nine, the tens and units are joined with the und (and) word, but in reverse order, such as saying one and twenty for 21. Examples are einunddreißig (31), fünfunddreißig (35)
5. Always note the irregularities of 30, 60, and 70
6. Numbers, if spelled, are continuous without spaces. For example, 1.234 would be spelled as eintausendzweihundertvierunddreißig.
7. Period, not comma, is used for separating digits such as the previous examples. In currency such as in price, comma is used to separate the cents from the whole number. For example 2 Euros and 50 cents would be 2,50 €
✎My personal wordbank:
hundert = hundred
tausend = thousand
million = million
billion = billion
halb = half f. = halbe
viertel = quarter
drittel = third
plus = plus or add
weniger = minus or subtract
mal = times or multiply
geteilt durch = divide by
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