How To Say Mr In German

German numbers

We larn to count from zero to a billion in german (and Jens tries to sell Oma'southward junk)

Jens with a bicycle with a price tag on it

Hold onto your Bratwürste, y'all're about to larn...

German numbers!
How to count from one to one billion in German
How to ask someone how quondam they are, and how to say how one-time you are
Vocabulary for the junk that Jens found in Oma's basement

It's official—Jens is in honey.

He doesn't want his Julia to find out how expressionless bankrupt he is, so he'southward decided to sell some of the junk from Oma's basement to make some extra coin.

Before you lot can help Jens out with this noble job, you're going to need to know bones German numbers.

German numbers: 0 - 10

German numbers: 11 - nineteen

11 and twelve are funny, merely thirteen–nineteen are easy to recall. It'due south the base of operations number plus zehn, which ways 10. Makes total sense, right?

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elf
(yep, only like Santa's helpers)

High german numbers: Multiples of 10

The numbers 20, 30, 40, etc. also follow a pattern. They all finish in –zig, except thirty, which ends in -ßig. Notwithstanding not too difficult, correct?

Where it gets foreign: 21, 22 etc

And now this is where the German language starts to mess with your encephalon.

If yous are an English speaker, yous are probably used to saying "twenty ane." Withal, in German, they switch the club and say "one and twenty." They also run all of information technology together as one behemothic word.

Luckily information technology'southward not hard to get the hang of.Here are some examples:

ein + und + zwanzig
ane + and + twenty

zwei + und + zwanzig
2 + and + twenty

drei + und + zwanzig
three + and + twenty

drei + und + dreißig
iii + and + xxx

sieben + und + fünfzig
seven + and + fifty

vier + und + achtzig
four + and + eighty

Back to easy: The hundreds

After that, information technology gets easier once again because it's a lot like English.

And the thousands follow the same pattern.

Stringing them together

As the numbers keep getting more complex, German speakers but keep stringing them together to brand longer and longer words, until eventually our fingers go numb from writing.

3627

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dreitausendsechshundert siebenundzwanzig

(Note: I've put a space in that number so that it'll fit on your screen!)

There'due south a chip of an exception when yous're talking nearly years. Instead of proverb something like "thousand, viii hundred" for 1800, you say "18 hundred".

1864

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achtzehnhundertvierundsechzig
(literally eighteen-hundred four and sixty)

Numbers 10,000 — one,000,000,000

Oh yes, and in case yous are planning to go to Germany to brand some serious cash, you should probably know these numbers:

Jens sells his (and Oma'due south) stuff

At present that you know the numbers, it's time to see what Jens has plant to sell.

Hither'south a list of the sellable items Jens found in Oma's basement. See if you lot can guess what the detail is, and how many of them Jens establish. And then click to come across if you lot got it correct.

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