And still in some other countries, both the decimal comma and the decimal period are used. 90 in French is spelled as "four-twenty-ten". In other countries, including most European countries, a comma is used before decimals. Small mercies!Ĭan you guess what comes now? Right. The spelling of numbers in French, however, is regular throughout. Here b+1 shows the number of digits in the given number. 1 a < 10 and be negative also and b can be any number. Where a is a non-zero number lie between 1 to 10 i.e. In Scientific notation, a number is written as, a × 10 b. You have to know your maths to count in French. It is used for numbers in order to write numbers in standard form, also it helps in writing large numbers. 80 is neither "eighty" nor "sixty-twenty", but actually "four-twenties". However, pay attention to numbers ending in 1, since you spell "et un", that is, "and 1" instead of simply "-un".Ĭareful! Since 70 is actually "sixty-ten", 71 will be spelled ad "sixty-eleven":Īnd now it gets even stranger. You only have to learn every tenth number! Just as in English you write "twenty" and then "two" for 22, in French you'll write "vingt-deux". We spell them in upper case because they start each item in the list, but remember that numbers in French are written in lower case.įrom here on, the numbers in French become easier. Around a quarter of the world’s languages have fewer than a thousand remaining speakers, and linguists generally agree in estimating that the extinction within the next century of at least 3,000 of the 6,909 languages listed by Ethnologue, or nearly half, is virtually guaranteed under present circumstances. In this list we present the numbers 1 to 50 as they are written in French.