Numbers in French

Details of how to count in French with cardinal and ordinal numbers.

Key to abbreviations: m = masculine, f = feminine

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Numeral	Cardinal	Ordinal
0	zéro
1	un (m) une (f)	premier (m) première (f)
2	deux	deuxième
3	trois	troisième
4	quatre	quartième
5	cinq	cinquième
6	six	sixième
7	sept	septième
8	huit	huitième
9	neuf	neuvième
10	dix	dixième
11	onze	onzième
12	douze	douzième
13	treize	treizième
14	quatorze	quatorzième
15	quinze	quinzième
16	seize	seizième
17	dix-sept	dix-septième
18	dix-huit	dix-huitième
19	dix-neuf	dix-neuvième
20	vingt	vintième
21	vingt et un	vingt et unième
22	vingt-deux	vingtdeuxième
23	vingt-trois	vingt-troisième
24	vingt-quatre	vingt-quatrième
25	vingt-cinq	vingt-cinquième
26	vingt-six	vingt-sixième
27	vingt-sept	vingt-septième
28	vingt-huit	vent-huitième
29	vingt-neuf	vingt-neuvième
30	trente	trentième
40	quarante	quarantième
50	cinquante	cinquantième
60	soixante	soixantième
70	soixante-dix septante	soixante-dixième septantième
80	quatre-vingts huitante	quatre-vingtième huitantième
90	quatre-vingt-dix nonante	quatre-vingt-dixième nonantième
100	cent	centième
200	deux cents	deux centième
300	trois cents	trois centième
400	quatre cents	quatre centième
500	cinq cents	cinq centième
600	six cents	six centième
700	sept cents	sept centième
800	huit cents	huit centième
900	neuf cents	neuf centième
1.000	mille	millième
1.000.000	un million	millionième
1.000.000.000	un milliard	milliardième

Notes

Different words for 70, 80 and 90 are used in different French-speaking regions. In Standard French these numbers are soixante-dix, quatre-vingts and quatre-vingt-dix.
In French-speaking parts of Switzerland septante, huitante and nonante are used, except in the Cantons of Geneva, Neuchâtel and Jura, where quatre-vingts is generally used for 80, though huitante is becoming more common. In the past octante was used in Switzerland for 80, though this is now considered archaic.
In French-speaking parts of Belgium, and in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda and Burundi, septante and nonante are used for 70 and 90, while 80 is quatre-vingts.

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Links

Information about numbers and counting in French
http://french.about.com/od/vocabulary/ss/numbers.htmr
http://french.about.com/od/vocabulary/a/ordinalnumbers.htm
http://www.frenchnumbers.org.uk
http://www.french-linguistics.co.uk/tutorials/numbers/
http://lingopolo.com/french/online-lessons/numbers/words
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_language#Numerals

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