Here's how to say the numbers thirty onwards.
trente - 30
Now you can say any birthday date!
"Mon anniversaire c’est le trente et un décembre."- My birthday is 31st December.
Numbers 30-100
What about prices, or door numbers though? It helps to know some bigger numbers!
quarante - 40
cinquante - 50
soixante - 60
Numbers 31, 41, 51 and 61 follow the same pattern as 21. All other numbers that don't end in 0 follow the pattern of tens then units up until 69. For example:
trente-deux - 32
cinquante-cinq - 55
soixante-neuf - 69
French numbers after 69 are unusual - but not impossible!
soixante-dix - 70 (literally, 'sixty ten')
soixante et onze - 71 (literally, 'sixty eleven')
You continue counting on from here until you get to seventy-nine:
soixante-dix-neuf - 79
quatre-vingts - 80 (literally 'four twenties')
You then count on in the same way as before:
quatre-vingt-un - 81
quatre-vingt-deux - 82
All the way to:
quatre-vingt-dix-neuf - 99
cent - 100
Do you recognise cent from centimetre, centipede and century? That's because cent is a hundred in Latin.