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Write the number as a word in German. German number words are not capitalized.

Question Answer
11 elf
12 zwölf
13 dreizehn
14 vierzehn
15 fünfzehn
16 sechzehn
17 siebzehn
18 achtzehn
19 neunzehn
20 zwanzig

How the numbers work

Elf (11) and zwölf (12) look a lot like eleven and twelve.

13 to 19 are the number plus -zehn, which means ten, like English -teen: dreizehn is 3 + 10 = 13. The same goes for vierzehn, fünfzehn, achtzehn and neunzehn.

Two of them get shorter, and the bold part disappears: sechs becomes sechzehn (16) and sieben becomes siebzehn (17). 20 is zwanzig.

Sources

We checked the answers against these references.

  1. Cambridge Dictionary dictionary.cambridge.org
  2. Cambridge: elf dictionary.cambridge.org
  3. Cambridge: zwölf dictionary.cambridge.org
  4. Cambridge: dreizehn dictionary.cambridge.org
  5. Cambridge: vierzehn dictionary.cambridge.org
  6. Cambridge: fünfzehn dictionary.cambridge.org
  7. Cambridge: sechzehn dictionary.cambridge.org
  8. Cambridge: siebzehn dictionary.cambridge.org
  9. Cambridge: achtzehn dictionary.cambridge.org
  10. Cambridge: neunzehn dictionary.cambridge.org
  11. Cambridge: zwanzig dictionary.cambridge.org

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