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Letters and NumbersCardinal and Ordinal Numbers

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Cardinal and Ordinal Numbers

The German cardinal numbers from 1–200

German ordinal numbers

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Cardinal numbers 1–12

eins

zwei

drei

vier

fünf

sechs

Listen to the numbers and repeat them. Try to learn the spellings, as these numbers are used in the names of higher numbers.

Because zwei and drei can

sound similar in bad

listening conditions (e.g. on

the telephone), sometimes

you might hear the word

zwo instead of zwei.

sieben

acht

neun

zehn

elf

zwölf

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

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Wie viele Enten?

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13

14

15

16

17

18

19

20

21

22

23

24

30

31

Cardinal numbers 13–30

einundzwanzig

zweiundzwanzig

dreiundzwanzig

vierundzwanzig

dreißig

einunddreißig

After twenty, German numbers are formed backwards by saying one and twenty, two and twenty, etc.

Watch out for the spellings of sechzehn (not

sechszehn) and siebzehn (not siebenzehn)!

dreizehn

vierzehn

fünfzehn

sechzehn

siebzehn

achtzehn

neunzehn

zwanzig

Do you know any of the higher numbers?

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Cardinal numbers 30–200

Here are the round numbers above thirty:

40

50

60

70

80

90

100

200

vierzig

fünfzig

sechzig

siebzig

achtzig

neunzig

hundert

zweihundert

Don’t get confused between –zig and –zehn!

Do you know how you would say these numbers in German?

5361

99202

86

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–zehn oder –zig?