Counting is one of those aspects of language learning that no one can get around learning. Knowing how to count is an essential skill for a variety of tasks and conversation topics from understanding a weather report to going grocery shopping.

1. How to Count in French

2. Why should you learn
numbers?
Counting is one of those
aspects that no one can avoid
learning about.
You may not notice but
numbers are everywhere...
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3. Shopping
Telling the store owner the
quantity of items you want.
What if something is on sale
and the cashier forgets to
include the discount?
Imagine your bill comes to
€238,21 and you can't see the
screen on the cash register
Deux de ceux s'il
vous plaît.
Cela fait deux cent
trente-huit y vingt et
un euro s'il vous
plaît.
That's two
hundred and
thirty-eight and
twenty-one
euros, please.
Two of those
please.

4. Tu as quel
age?
J'ai 29
ans.
Talking about age
Whether you are 13, 35 or 99, you need to
know your French numbers to be able to
answer the question.
You also need to be able to understand
numbers so you don’t make any mistakes
when it comes to understanding the other
person’s age.

5. Talking about
dates
It’s very important that you learn
numbers so you can talk about
dates.
If someone says that they can meet on a
certain date, you need to be confident
that you have the right details.
This also applies to talking about
birthdays or other important dates.

6. Talking about
datesVoulez-vous
aller boire un
verre le vingt-
deux mai? Ça a l'air
génial. Voulez-
vous rencontrer
à sept heures?
C'est quand ton
anniversaire?
Mon anniversaire est le
treize décembre.
That sounds
great. Do you
want to meet
at seven
o'clock?
Do you want
to go for a
drink on the
twenty-second
of May?
When is your
birthday?
My birthday is
on the
thirteenth of
December.

7. Telling the time
Be able to tell the time and
understand the time if
someone tells you in French.
Key
words
heure(s) = hour(s)
minute(s)
= minute(s)
et demi =
half
et quart
= quarter
et = and
moins =
less

8. Travelling
Finding your assigned train and your
seat are also important.
You want to be able to get on the right
bus by going to the correct bay.
Numbers come in handy when asking
how far away something is.

9. Travelling
Le bus numéro
cinquante-six
va à Liège.
Quelle baie est
desservie par le
bus numéro
cinquante-six?
Le numéro de
mon siège est
quarante-trois.
La gare est à
dix minutes
d'ici.
Bus number
fifty-six goes
to Liege.
Which bay
does bus
number fifty-
six stop at?
The train
station is 10
minutes from
here.
My seat
number is
forty three.

10. Speaking about
yourself
Saying how many siblings you
have.
Speaking about when you
have visited certain places.
Birthdays, age, family
members
Speaking about where you
live.

11. Speaking about
yourself
J'ai trois frères et soeurs.
J'ai vécu en France pendant
3 mois.
Ma mère a cinquante-cinq
ans.
Mon père a un an de plus que
ma mère.
J'ai 24 ans.
J'ai vécu dans quatre pays.
J'habite au numéro quatre-
vingt douze Sunny Street.
My mother is fifty-five.
My father is one year older
than my mother.
I live in Sunny Street ninety-
two.
I have three siblings.
I am 24 years old.
I lived in France for 3 months.
I lived in four countries.

12. How to count from
1-20 in French
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.
13.
14.
15.
16.
17.
18.
19.
20.
Un
Deux
Trois
Quatre
Cinq
Six
Sept
Huit
Neuf
Dix
Onze
Douze
Treize
Quatorze
Quinze
Seize
Dix-sept
Dix-huit
Dix-neuf
Vingt

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