Tens, 100 and 1000 in German
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How to answer
Write the number as a word in German. German number words are not capitalized. 100 is hundert and 1000 is tausend.
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 20 | zwanzig |
| 30 | dreißig |
| 40 | vierzig |
| 50 | fünfzig |
| 60 | sechzig |
| 70 | siebzig |
| 80 | achtzig |
| 90 | neunzig |
| 100 | hundert |
| 1000 | tausend |
How the numbers work
The tens are the number plus -zig, which means tens: vierzig is 4 tens = 40. The same goes for fünfzig, achtzig and neunzig.
Two of them get shorter, and the bold part disappears: sechs becomes sechzig (60) and sieben becomes siebzig (70).
20 is zwanzig. 30 is dreißig: here ß is a letter of its own that sounds like ss and takes the place of z. 100 is hundert and 1000 is tausend.
Sources
We checked the answers against these references.
- Cambridge Dictionary dictionary.cambridge.org
- Cambridge: zwanzig dictionary.cambridge.org
- Cambridge: dreißig dictionary.cambridge.org
- Cambridge: vierzig dictionary.cambridge.org
- Cambridge: fünfzig dictionary.cambridge.org
- Cambridge: sechzig dictionary.cambridge.org
- Cambridge: siebzig dictionary.cambridge.org
- Cambridge: achtzig dictionary.cambridge.org
- Cambridge: neunzig dictionary.cambridge.org
- Cambridge: hundert dictionary.cambridge.org
- Cambridge: tausend dictionary.cambridge.org
