German vocabulary/Numbers

Cardinal Numbers

 * Eleven and twelve are irregular:

First digit number + 'zehn' Note: The "-s" in "Sechs" and the "-en" in "Sieben" are dropped in the combination.
 * Numbers 13 through 19 are created as follows:

Double Digits
adding the suffix "-zig." (similar to English "-ty").
 * In German, two digit numbers are created by:

Note: The spellings of zwanzig (20), dreißig (30), sechzig (60), and siebzig (70) are irregular.


 * Two digit numbers that do not end with zero are made as follows: second digit + und + the number as it would be said if it ended in zero (English Example: 42 / Two and Forty / two and forty / Zwei und vierzig / zweiundvierzig)

Examples: Note: Periods (.) are used to divide large numbers into groups of three, as opposed to commas. 1.001 = "one thousand and one" 1,001 = "one point zero zero one"
 * Large numbers use the long scale:
 * Commas are used as decimal points:

Numbers


 * zero - null
 * one - eins
 * two - zwei
 * three - drei
 * four - vier
 * five - fünf
 * six - sechs
 * seven - sieben
 * eight - acht
 * nine - neun
 * ten - zehn
 * eleven - elf
 * twelve - zwölf
 * thirteen - dreizehn
 * fourteen - vierzehn
 * fifteen - fünfzehn
 * sixteen - sechzehn
 * seventeen - siebzehn
 * eighteen - achtzehn
 * nineteen - neunzehn
 * twenty - zwanzig
 * twenty one - einundzwanzig
 * thirty - dreißig
 * forty - vierzig
 * hundred - hundert
 * one hundred - einhundert