This is what i’ve learnt (with my own interpretation fo the pronunciation) after weeks of numbers in French..
Un-male (an) / Une-female (ewn) – One
Deux (duh) – Two
Trois (trwah) – Three
Quatre (cat-r) -Four
Cinq (sank) – Five
Six (sees) – Six
Sept (set) – Seven
Huit (weet) – Eight
Neuf (nef) – Nine
Dix (dis) – Ten
Eleven to Sixteen has words of their own whilst Seventeen to Nineteen is just ten plus seven, eight and nine respectively.
Onze (onz) – Eleven
Douze (doohz) -Twelve
Treize (treiz) – Thirteen
I find the following two a little harder to remember but the pronunciation sounded like ‘cattles’ and ‘cows’ to me so i used that to help me remember
Quatorze (cat-tohrz) – Fourteen
Quinze (kehnz) – Fifteen
Seize (sez) – Sixteen
Dix-sept (dis-set) – Seventeen
Dix-huit (di-zweet) – Eighteen
Dix-neuf (diz-nuf) – Nineteen
Twenty to Sixty isn’t that hard but Seventy to Ninety can be rather confusing
Vingt (vah) – Twenty
Trente (trengt) – Thirty
Quarante (keh-ranght) – Fourty
Cinquante (senk-kont) – Fifty
Soixante (sueh-sawn) – Sixty
Trente et un (trent-e-an) – Thirty-One
This is where is gets a little confusing but once you get the idea, it isn’t too hard to understand…
Soixante-dix (sueh-sawn-dis) – Seventy (is actually sixty-ten)
Quatre-vingt (cat-r-vah) – Eighty (is actually four-twenty)
Quatre-vingt-dis (cat-r-vah-dis) – Ninety (is actually four-twenty-ten)
And this is where is gets even more confusing, at first…
Soixante-douze (sueh-sawn-doohz) – Seventy-two (is actually sixty-twelve)
Soixante-dix-neuf (sueh-sawn-dis-nef) – Seventy nine (is actually sixty-nineteen)
Quatre-vingt-quatre (cat-r-vah-cat-r) – Eighty-four (is actually four-twenty-four)
Quatre-vingt-treize (cat-r-vah-treze) – Ninety-three (is actually four-twenty-thirteen)
Quatre-vingt-dix-sept (cat-r-vah-dis-set) – Ninety-seven (is actually four-twenty-seventeen)
and
Cent (sank) – Hundred
On a side note, if someone as dumb as me can learn the above, everyone who belittles me shouldn’t have the slightest problem, correct? Yes, I can’t drive, I don’t how to check car fluids and tyre pressure, I can’t prepare soup, I don’t know how to park a car, I can’t cook rice, I can’t make decent dishes, I am technology illiterate, I don’t know anything, I can’t do anything. That is what the world sees and tt’s great to be underestimated. Just like the Chinese saying ‘The silent dog is the one that bites the human to death’.
