Numbers and Counting: 60 to 99
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Learn the French numbers and how to count from 60 to 99.
French Numbers: 60-69
The numbers 60 to 69 follow the same rules as 20 to 59.
| 60 | soixante | |
| 61 | soixante et un | |
| 62 | soixante-deux | |
| 63 | soixante-trois | |
| 64 | soixante-quatre | |
| 65 | soixante-cinq | |
| 66 | soixante-six | |
| 67 | soixante-sept | |
| 68 | soixante-huit | |
| 69 | soixante-neuf |
French Numbers: 70-79
Things start getting weird at 70 because standard French* doesn’t have a new “tens” word here; instead,soixante is kept and the “ones” just continue climbing into the teens:
| 70 | soixante-dix | |
| 71 | soixante et onze | |
| 72 | soixante-douze | |
| 73 | soixante-treize | |
| 74 | soixante-quatorze | |
| 75 | soixante-quinze | |
| 76 | soixante-seize | |
| 77 | soixante-dix-sept | |
| 78 | soixante-dix-huit | |
| 79 | soixante-dix-neuf |
Soixante-dix literally means “sixty-ten,” soixante et onze means “sixty and eleven,” soixante-douze is “sixty-twelve,” etc.
French Numbers: 80-89
Likewise, there’s no word for “eighty” in standard French.* The French say quatre-vingts, literally four-twenties.** So 81 is quatre-vingt-un (four-twenty-one), 82 is quatre-vingt-deux (four-twenty-two), etc.
French Numbers: 90-99
In keeping with the general weirdness at this end of the number scale, there’s no standard French word for ninety* either; it follows the same pattern as 70. That is, you continue using quatre-vingt and adding from ten. 90 is quatre-vingt-dix (four-twenty-ten), 91 is quatre-vingt-onze (four-twenty-eleven), etc.
from https://www.lawlessfrench.com/vocabulary/numbers-and-counting-2/