{"id":1028,"date":"2021-03-09T17:04:25","date_gmt":"2021-03-09T16:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.sillabi.com\/?p=1028"},"modified":"2025-06-20T15:11:36","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T13:11:36","slug":"numbers-70-80-and-90","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sillabi.com\/en\/numbers-70-80-and-90\/","title":{"rendered":"Numbers 70, 80 and 90"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Learning to count in another language isn’t always easy. Counting in French up to 69 is not too complicated, but from 70 onwards you have to do some arithmetic. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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For example for 70 you have to to add 60 + 10 to get “soixante-dix”; for 80 you have to multiply 4×20 (\u201cquatre-vingts\u201d); and for 90 you have to multiply 4×20 and add 10 (“quatre-vingt-dix”!).<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Fortunately, in other French-speaking countries you count in a more “logical” way: in Belgium you say “septante”, “quatre-vingt” and “nonante”; in Switzerland “septante”, “huitante” and “nonante”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is also true that the system adopted by the Romans was not that simple: for the 9 (Roman number: IX), for example, a subtraction had to be made. If you want to learn more, you will find more content at the A1 level French course<\/a>. Register on Sillabi!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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