--- title: Numbers 21 to 69 — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Numbers 21 to 69», a lesson of the french course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Once you know the tens, French numbers up to 69 are like Lego: take a ten, click on a unit with a hyphen, and you have a number. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/7-numbers-21-to-69/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [French](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/) / Numbers 21 to 69 # Numbers 21 to 69 Lesson 7 of the french course of Mova's primary school: 16 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/french/7-numbers-21-to-69/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/7-numbers-21-to-69/0/) — Once you know the tens, French numbers up to 69 are like Lego: take a ten, click on a unit with a hyphen, and you have a number. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/7-numbers-21-to-69/1/) — The tens are vingt (20), trente (30), quarante (40), cinquante (50) and soixante (60); the last four all end in -ante or -ente. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/7-numbers-21-to-69/2/) — The ones are special: 21, 31, 41, 51 and 61 say "and one", so 21 is vingt et un, while 22 is just vingt-deux. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/7-numbers-21-to-69/3/) — Picture a bus in Dublin: Liam calls it "trente-un" and the French driver laughs, "Trente et un, mon grand!" - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/7-numbers-21-to-69/4/) — For your age, French uses "have", not "be": j'ai neuf ans means "I am nine", but word for word "I have nine years". - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/7-numbers-21-to-69/5/) — The tens: vingt ("van") 20, trente ("trahnt") 30, quarante ("ka-RAHNT") 40, cinquante ("sank-AHNT") 50, soixante ("swa-SAHNT") 60. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/7-numbers-21-to-69/6/) — In soixante the x sounds like s. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/7-numbers-21-to-69/7/) — 21, 31, 41, 51 and 61 use et un: vingt et un, trente et un, quarante et un, cinquante et un, soixante et un. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/7-numbers-21-to-69/8/) — The other numbers just join the ten and the unit with a hyphen: vingt-deux (22), trente-quatre (34), quarante-quatre (44), soixante-cinq (65). - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/7-numbers-21-to-69/9/) — In quarante and quatre, qu says "k", with no w: quarante-quatre is "ka-rahnt-KATR". - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/7-numbers-21-to-69/11/) — Prices are said as euros then cents, often without the word cents: un euro vingt is €1.20; euro takes an s for more than one: deux euros. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/7-numbers-21-to-69/12/) — J'ai neuf ans means "I am nine"; je suis neuf would mean "I am new". - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/7-numbers-21-to-69/13/) — Combien ? means "how many?" or "how much?"; Tu as combien de bonbons ? means "How many sweets have you got?" and wants a number for an answer. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/7-numbers-21-to-69/14/) — Un numéro is a number on a shirt, a bus, a house or a ticket: le numéro vingt-trois is number 23. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/7-numbers-21-to-69/15/) — seize is 16 but soixante is 60; the longer word is the bigger number. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/7-numbers-21-to-69/16/) — Slang here: "canny" (Newcastle) means very or nice; "no cap" means honestly; "our kid" (Manchester) means my brother or sister; "bare" (London) means lots of; "boss" (Liverpool) means great; "heaps" (Australia) means very; "y'all" (Texas) means you all. - ← previous: [Numbers 0 to 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/6-numbers-0-to-20/) - next →: [Numbers 70 to 100: soixante-dix and quatre-vingts](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/8-numbers-70-to-100-soixante-dix-and-quatre-vingts/) - ↑ back to [French](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/)