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Numbers, prices and years in French.
Type a number and read it in words, live. Hear it in a Canadian French voice, switch to septante and nonante for Belgium and Switzerland, and test yourself with ten quick rounds.
deux mille vingt-six
Quick examples
Numbers 0 to 100. Ten rounds.
THE RULES
Why 70, 80 and 90 feel strange
- 70 = soixante-dix (sixty-ten), then soixante et onze, soixante-douze… up to soixante-dix-neuf.
- 80 = quatre-vingts (four twenties) with an s. Add a number and the s goes: quatre-vingt-un, quatre-vingt-dix (90), quatre-vingt-dix-neuf (99).
- “et un” appears from 21 to 71: vingt et un, trente et un… soixante et onze. Not at 81 or 91: quatre-vingt-un, quatre-vingt-onze.
- cent takes an s only when multiplied and final: deux cents, but deux cent un and deux cent mille.
- mille never changes: deux mille, dix mille, deux mille vingt-six.
- million is a noun: un million, deux millions, deux millions trois cent mille.
- Belgium and Switzerland say septante (70) and nonante (90); huitante (80) is Swiss.
What this tool is for. Prices at the till, a phone number on the line, the year on a form: numbers come up constantly and are hard to catch by ear. Use the converter to check spelling, and the quiz to train listening and reading.
Levels. A1 drills 0 to 100, A2 goes to 10 000, B1 and B2 open the full range. The spelling follows the traditional convention, with hyphens between tens and units; the 1990 reform (hyphens everywhere) is also accepted in Canada.
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