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Basic Bootcamp S1 #4
Counting 1-20
CONTENTS
Dialogue - French
Main
English
Vocabulary
Sample sentences
Grammar
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FRENCHPOD101.COM BASIC BOOTCAMP S1 #4 1
DIALOGUE - FRENCH
MAIN
1. Agnès : Un, deux, trois, quatre, cinq, six, sept, huit, neuf, dix.
ENGLISH
1. Agnès : One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten.
VOCABULARY
un one numeral
SAMPLE SENTENCES
Un de ceux-là, s'il vous plaît. J'ai surfé sur Internet pendant une heure.
J'ai deux frères aînés et une soeur cadette. Le numéro deux est mon numéro préféré.
I have two older brothers and one younger sister. The number two is my favorite number.
Give me two tickets, please. I have two (2) arms and two (2) legs.
Il y a trois membres dans ma famille. Le premier groupe est arrivé en bus numéro
trois.
There are three members in my family.
The first group arrived on bus number three.
Une étoile de mer a cinq pattes. Le réveil est réglé pour cinq heures du matin.
The starfish has five legs. The alarm clock is set for five a.m.
"I'd like six croissants." "There are six dice in the Yahtzee game."
Une semaine a sept jours. Il y a sept jours (7) dans toutes les semaines.
One week has seven days. There are seven (7) days in every week.
I can count from one to ten in Chinese. My son is ten years old.
J'ai dix ans. Ça fait dix euros. C'est notre offre de la semaine !
"I am ten." "It costs ten euros. It is our offer of the week!"
La pendule affiche midi moins huit. Mon numéro de compte bancaire contient douze
chiffres.
The clock reads eight minutes to twelve.
"My bank account number contains twelve
digits."
thirteen officals 13
fourteen letters 14
sixteen teams 16
Le numéro seize est écrit au milieu du cercle. Après-demain, nous sommes le seize février.
The number sixteen is written in the middle of "The day after tomorrow, it is February 16th."
the circle.
seventeen syllables 17
He is seventeen years old. The number seventeen was carved into the
wood.
nineteen geese 19
twenty cities 20
GRAMMAR
The Focus of This Lesson Is Counting
Un, deux, trois, quatre, cinq, six, sept, huit, neuf, dix.
"One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten."
Numbers surround our daily lives. They help us function and run our lives. The applications of numbers
today are as various as where we find them. In France, we use the ten-digit system with the cardinal
numbers below.
Number French
0 zéro
1 un
2 deux
3 trois
4 quatre
5 cinq
6 six
7 sept
8 huit
9 neuf
Once you master the numbers from one to ten, you will use some of them in the series below. However,
be aware this series of numbers is quite particular, as most numbers don't follow a pattern. Consult the
hints described below to make your first experience counting from ten to nineteen easier!
Number French
10 dix
11 onze
12 douze
13 treize
14 quatorze
15 quinze
16 seize
17 dix-sept
18 dix-huit
19 dix-neuf
As you can see by looking at the numbers in bold in the table above, when counting from ten to sixteen,
no recurrent pattern appears. This is why learning French numbers may seem overwhelming at first.
But we can facilitate learning the numbers if we break down the series of numbers into two groups.
So to remember how to say a number from seventeen to nineteen, use dix ("ten") and add the French
word for the second digit. Let's say you want to say the number eighteen. Take the word dix and add the
French word for eight, huit. You'll have dix + huit, which is properly written as dix hyphen huit (dix-huit).