German vocabulary/Numbers

Cardinal Numbers

Number	German	English
0	null	zero
1	eins	one
2	zwei	two
3	drei	three
4	vier	four
5	fünf	five
6	sechs	six
7	sieben	seven
8	acht	eight
9	neun	nine
10	zehn	ten

• Eleven and twelve are irregular:

Number	German	English
11	elf	eleven
12	zwölf	twelve

• Numbers 13 through 19 are created as follows:

First digit number + 'zehn'

Number	German	English
13	dreizehn	thirteen
14	vierzehn	fourteen
15	fünfzehn	fifteen
16	sechzehn	sixteen
17	siebzehn	seventeen
18	achtzehn	eighteen
19	neunzehn	nineteen

Note: The "-s" in "Sechs" and the "-en" in "Sieben" are dropped in the combination.

Double Digits

• In German, two digit numbers are created by:

 adding the suffix "-zig." (similar to English "-ty").  

Number	German	English
20	zwanzig	twenty
30	dreißig	thirty
40	vierzig	forty
50	fünfzig	fifty
60	sechzig	sixty
70	siebzig	seventy
80	achtzig	eighty
90	neunzig	ninety

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:

German	English
einundzwanzig	21
siebenunddreißig	37
sechsundvierzig	46
vierundsechzig	64
neunundneunzig	99

• Large numbers use the long scale:

German	English (short scale)	Number
hundert	hundred	100
tausend	thousand	1.000
Million	Million	1.000.000
Milliarde	Billion	1.000.000.000
Billion	Trillion	1.000.000.000.000
Billiarde	Quadrillion	1.000.000.000.000.000

Note: Periods (.) are used to divide large numbers into groups of three, as opposed to commas (,).

• Commas are used as decimal points:

1.001 = "one thousand and one"
1,001 = "one point zero zero one"

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