Numbers and Counting: 60 to 99

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Learn the French numbers and how to count from 60 to 99.

French Numbers: 60-69

The numbers 60 to 69 follow the same rules as 20 to 59.

60   soixante
61   soixante et un
soixante-et-un
62   soixante-deux
63   soixante-trois
64   soixante-quatre
65   soixante-cinq
66   soixante-six
67   soixante-sept
68   soixante-huit
69   soixante-neuf

French Numbers: 70-79

Things start getting weird at 70 because standard French* doesn’t have a new “tens” word here; instead, soixante is kept and the “ones” just continue climbing into the teens:

70   soixante-dix
71   soixante et onze
soixante-et-onze
72   soixante-douze
73   soixante-treize
74   soixante-quatorze
75   soixante-quinze
76   soixante-seize
77   soixante-dix-sept
78   soixante-dix-huit
79   soixante-dix-neuf

Soixante-dix literally means “sixty-ten,” soixante et onze means "sixty and eleven," soixante-douze is "sixty-twelve," etc.

French Numbers: 80-89

Likewise, there’s no word for “eighty” in standard French.* The French say quatre-vingts, literally four-twenties.** So 81 is quatre-vingt-un (four-twenty-one), 82 is quatre-vingt-deux (four-twenty-two), etc.

80   quatre-vingts
81   quatre-vingt-un
82   quatre-vingt-deux
83   quatre-vingt-trois
84   quatre-vingt-quatre
85   quatre-vingt-cinq
86   quatre-vingt-six
87   quatre-vingt-sept
88   quatre-vingt-huit
89   quatre-vingt-neuf

French Numbers: 90-99

In keeping with the general weirdness at this end of the number scale, there’s no standard French word for ninety* either; it follows the same pattern as 70. That is, you continue using quatre-vingt and adding from ten. 90 is quatre-vingt-dix (four-twenty-ten), 91 is quatre-vingt-onze (four-twenty-eleven), etc.

90   quatre-vingt-dix
91   quatre-vingt-onze
92   quatre-vingt-douze
93   quatre-vingt-treize
94   quatre-vingt-quatorze
95   quatre-vingt-quinze
96   quatre-vingt-seize
97   quatre-vingt-dix-sept
98   quatre-vingt-dix-huit
99   quatre-vingt-dix-neuf

 Listening practice: 60-99

  À noter

* In some French-speaking areas, such as Belgium and Switzerland, “seventy” is septante and "ninety" is nonante. As for 80, Belgium uses the standard quatre-vingts, while Switzerland uses huitante. There’s also an archaic word octante that you might hear in Switzerland or the South of France.

** Four-twenties isn’t as odd as it might seem at first glance. Ever heard "Four-score and seven years ago"?

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