Numbers In German
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German Numbers: Learn To Count From 0 to 1,000 in German
Do you want to learn how to count from 0-100 in German, and find out more about German numbers?
In this article I want to share with you how to learn, remember and use German numbers.
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Let’s start with the basics. Below is a table of the German numbers from zero to 100. Take a few minutes read through it, then I’ll give you some tips to help you remember it all:
Seeing it all in one big block can be a little overwhelming, right? Well, don’t worry. Using the simple tips and language hacks below, you’ll be able to remember all of this information with little effort.
There are no rules for these numbers — though I’ll share a simple trick for memorising them later in the article. And it is important to remember these numbers, as they occur, in one form or another, in every number you’ll use when counting. For example, just as “eight” is in “eighteen”, “Twenty-eight”, “eighty” and “eighthundred”, the same can be said for acht (“eight”) in German. “Achtzehn”, “achtundzwanzig”,”achtzig” and “achthundert”.
Elf (“eleven”) and zwölf (“twelve”) also don’t follow a pattern. You’ll just have to learn these by heart.
For the other German numbers between 13 and 19 you take the first four letters of the number between three and nine (like the rule above) and add the word “zehn” or ten at the end: dreizehn (“thirteen”), vierzehn (“fourteen”), fünfzehn (“fifteen”), and so on.
Between forty and ninety, all of these numbers are regular. They take the first four letters of the number between one and ten and add the word “zig” to the end of it.
Vierzig (“forty”), fünfzig (“fifty”), sechzig (“sixty”), siebzig (“seventy”), achtzig (“eighty”), neunzig (“ninety”).
Twenty and thirty are exceptions. Twenty takes the form zwanzig, and thirty is dreiiβig.
Once you’ve learned all of these you can begin to fill in the numbers between with a simple formula.
All of the numbers larger than twenty follow the same pattern. The second number is said at the start. Let me explain that a bit more:
This swapping around can take some getting used to so take some time to practice them. When it comes to writing these, many German children are taught to write the second number first, the same way as when it’s spoken, then place the first number before it. Practicing this may help you understand it too.
Also don’t forget that:
The number one in German is the only number that needs to be conjugated.
In English we have three words for “one”. We have the number one itself, or we use “a” or “an” to express we only have one of something.
In German these three words are expressed using variations of “ein” and “eins”.
When you’re counting the quantity of something – like how many people are in a group – you’ll always use the “eins” form of the word, which is the number one itself, as you can see in the table at the start of this article.
However when you’re referring to anything else you’ll use the “ein” form of the word and its case-based variations. Such as:
Explaining each of these in depth is a little beyond the scope of this article. But remember that when you’re counting you use numbers, when you’re talking to someone you’ll use “ein” and it’s variations.
Other numbers like two in German or three in German don’t need to be conjugated and stay the same throughout.
The rule for counting in the hundreds is exactly the same as in English. You take the number from one to nine and add the word “hundert” (hundred) to the end of it.
Here’s a table to show you what I mean:
Filling in the gaps between these numbers is relatively simple too. There are just a few things to remember:
These rules apply throughout all the hundreds.
You’ve already learned the hardest parts of counting in German. From here on out it’s so similar to English you don’t need to remember much.
The word for thousand in German is tausend, which is said like you’re saying the English word “thousands” in a German accent.
Then the thousands themselves follow work the same as you just saw in the 100’s, but with the word “tausend” added to the end:
When you start adding hundreds into the mix, the rules of the 100’s you just read still apply. You only change the two-digit number – like 43 – around, the rest go in order.
For the numbers in the 10,000’s you’re going to follow the two-digit number rules. In succession these numbers follow on in multiples of ten: zehntausend, zwanzigtausend, dreiβigtausend and so on.
When the numbers change to have a second digit, like 87, this would then become siebenundachtzigtausend (seven and eighty-thousand). This can become quite a mouthful when the number is 87,787 which would be siebenundachtzigtausendsiebenhundertsiebenundachtzig.
When you reach the 100,000’s you can then apply the rules for this, but with 100’s numbers. So 100,000 would be hunderttausend, 200,000 would be zweihunderttausend, 300,000 would be dreihunderttausend, and so on.
Here are the terminologies for numbers when you count higher than that:
You may be looking at all of these numbers right now and thinking, “How in the world am I ever going to remember all of this?”. But don’t worry, I’ve got you covered.
There are a few number words in German that you can simply remember as the English form and translate it. For example:
But how do you remember the trickier, German sounding words?
Well, one of my favourite ways to remember numbers is mnemonics. These are attachments you make to a word to help you recall it. It can be a funny sentence, a visualistion, a play on the word or anything that helps you remember. Well here are a few of my favourites from my time learning German:
Don’t censor yourself when trying to do this, these are to help you remember, not somebody else.
Where do German numbers come from? They’re part of a branch of the language family tree called Germanic. This branch sprouts off into languages like English, Dutch and Swedish.
In fact if you look at the major European Germanic languages side by side, you can see a lot of similarities in their spellings and pronunciations (pay close attention to the number six):
If you look back to old high German which was spoken between the years 700 and 1050, you can see how some of their similarities have carried on through time too:
How did you find learning German numbers? There are lots similarities to English, and once you get used to swapping two-digit numbers around, it becomes really simple. Once you learn your German numbers from 1-10 you the rest starts to fall into place.
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