--- title: Numbers 70 to 100: soixante-dix and quatre-vingts — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Numbers 70 to 100: soixante-dix and quatre-vingts», a lesson of the french course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: In France the numbers from 70 to 99 are little sums: 70 is soixante-dix, sixty-ten, and 80 is quatre-vingts, four twentie --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/8-numbers-70-to-100-soixante-dix-and-quatre-vingts/) [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 70 to 100: soixante-dix and qu… # Numbers 70 to 100: soixante-dix and quatre-vingts Lesson 8 of the french course of Mova's primary school: 15 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/8-numbers-70-to-100-soixante-dix-and-quatre-vingts/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/8-numbers-70-to-100-soixante-dix-and-quatre-vingts/0/) — In France the numbers from 70 to 99 are little sums: 70 is soixante-dix, sixty-ten, and 80 is quatre-vingts, four twenties. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/8-numbers-70-to-100-soixante-dix-and-quatre-vingts/1/) — From 70 to 79 you keep saying soixante and add a number from 10 to 19: 71 is soixante et onze (60 + 11), 76 is soixante-seize (60 + 16). - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/8-numbers-70-to-100-soixante-dix-and-quatre-vingts/2/) — From 80 to 99 you say quatre-vingt and add a number from 1 to 19: 90 is quatre-vingt-dix (80 + 10), 99 is quatre-vingt-dix-neuf (80 + 19). - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/8-numbers-70-to-100-soixante-dix-and-quatre-vingts/4/) — Picture bingo in Liverpool: the teacher calls "soixante-seize" and Ethan must wait for the whole number before he marks 76, not 60 or 16. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/8-numbers-70-to-100-soixante-dix-and-quatre-vingts/5/) — soixante-dix ("swa-sahnt-DEESS") is 70, word for word sixty-ten. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/8-numbers-70-to-100-soixante-dix-and-quatre-vingts/6/) — 71 is soixante et onze (60 + 11), 72 is soixante-douze, 73 is soixante-treize, and so on up to 79, soixante-dix-neuf. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/8-numbers-70-to-100-soixante-dix-and-quatre-vingts/7/) — quatre-vingts ("katr-VAN") is 80, word for word four twenties. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/8-numbers-70-to-100-soixante-dix-and-quatre-vingts/8/) — quatre-vingts has an s only when no other number follows it: 80 is quatre-vingts, but 81 is quatre-vingt-un, with no s and no et. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/8-numbers-70-to-100-soixante-dix-and-quatre-vingts/9/) — 90 is quatre-vingt-dix (80 + 10); 91 is quatre-vingt-onze, 97 is quatre-vingt-dix-sept and 99 is quatre-vingt-dix-neuf. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/8-numbers-70-to-100-soixante-dix-and-quatre-vingts/10/) — In Belgium and Switzerland 70 is septante and 90 is nonante; in Belgium 80 is still quatre-vingts, and in parts of Switzerland it is huitante. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/8-numbers-70-to-100-soixante-dix-and-quatre-vingts/11/) — All are proper French. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/8-numbers-70-to-100-soixante-dix-and-quatre-vingts/12/) — cent ("sahn") means a hundred; a euro cent is called un centime ("sahn-TEEM"). - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/8-numbers-70-to-100-soixante-dix-and-quatre-vingts/13/) — Hyphens join all the parts of one number: quatre-vingt-huit is one number, 88, not four separate numbers. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/8-numbers-70-to-100-soixante-dix-and-quatre-vingts/14/) — A score is 20 in old English, so "four score and seven" (Lincoln, 1863) is 87. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/8-numbers-70-to-100-soixante-dix-and-quatre-vingts/15/) — Slang here: "bruv" means mate; "tamping" (Wales) means fuming; "my lover" (Bristol) means dear; "ma heid" (Scotland) means my head; "having a laugh" (UK) means joking; "la" (Liverpool) means mate; "I'm literally dead" means I can't cope (as a joke). - ← previous: [Numbers 21 to 69](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/7-numbers-21-to-69/) - next →: [Colours](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/9-colours/) - ↑ back to [French](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/)