A1 LEKTION 3 : NUMBERS 0 - 20

Hello everyone and welcome to our video series on learn German for beginners.
In the previous lessons, you learned a few greetings in German and a few common phrases.
Hopefully now you can speak a bit of German. In this lesson we will be learning numbers
from 0 to 20.

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So let’s begin: Lektion 3 once again: Lektion 3

Zahl, once again: Zahl

Zahlen, once again: Zahlen

Zahl is the singular form and Zahlen is the plural form.

Remember you have to listen and repeat

so are you ready? here we go

null, once again: null

eins, once again: eins

We learned in the previous lessons, that S has the sound of Z. But Whenever the letter “s”
occurs at the end of a German word (or after the last vowel within that word), it is
pronounced as in the English “s”.

zwei, once again: zwei

The German consonant 'z' is pronounced like the English 'ts' sound that is found at the end
of words such as 'mats', 'pots' or 'bits'.

drei, once again: drei

The next one is:

vier, once again: vier

The pronunciation is similar to the english word FEAR.

We have already learned, that the German V has the same sound as the English F.

fünf, once again: fünf

The two dots that you find on U are known as Umlaut. You will pick up the pronunciation with
a few more words that we will come across in the next few lessons.
sechs, once again: sechs
We have already learned, that whenever the letter “s” occurs at the beginning of a German
word, and is followed by a vowel, it is pronounced as if it were the English “z”.

Similarly in the next one

sieben, once again: sieben

acht, once again: acht

neun, once again: neun

In this case EU is pronounced like OI for eg in OIL in english

zehn, once again: zehn

hope you remember the pronunciation of z in German: Its TS

elf, once again: elf

zwölf, once again: zwölf

Well letters with Umlaut, in this case O with Umlaut has no equivalent in English. You will be
picking up the pronunciation once you learn more words.

dreizehn, once again: dreizehn

numbers from 13 to 19 follow a simple rule: number plus ten: drei plus zehn: gives you
dreizehn.

Similarly the next one:

vier plus zehn gives you vierzehn, once again: vierzehn

And can you guess the next one?:

fünfzehn, once again, fünfzehn

sechzehn, once again: sechzehn

Well in this case you do bring sechs and zehn together, but sechs is used without “S” This is
to make the pronunciation easier.

Also the next number is slightly exceptional:

siebzehn (instead of siebenzehn) you say: siebzehn, once again: siebzehn

in this case you remove the en from sieben, and add it to the zehn: siebzehn

Let’s look at the next one: achtzehn, once again: achtzehn

and the next one: neunzehn, once again: neunzehn
and now we come to the final number:
zwanzig, once again: zwanzig.

When 'g' forms part of an -ig suffix it is pronounced as -ich. You might also find some people
pronouncing this number as “zwanzig” - this is because they have a different dialect.

So now you know numbers from 0 to 20. Let's move on to see how you can use these
numbers to say your mobile number:

Wie ist Ihre Handynummer?

This question is asked formally and informally I would ask
Wie ist deine Handynummer?
Answer to both these questions is the same:
Meine Handynummer ist: 0187 - 632 - 945
null - eins - acht - sieben - sechs - drei - zwei - neun - vier - fünf
once again: null - eins - acht - sieben - sechs - drei - zwei - neun - vier - fünf
Now try to read your mobile number in German.

Let's summarize the numbers from zero to twenty once again. I'll speak and you
repeat after me. Don't forget the two exceptions that we have here: sechzehn und siebzehn.

null sieben vierzehn

eins acht fünfzehn
zwei neun sechzehn
drei zehn siebzehn
vier elf achtzehn
fünf zwölf neunzehn
sechs dreizehn zwanzig

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