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Learn Dutch in Three Minutes #7

Numbers 11-100

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2 Grammar

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The focus of this lesson is the Numbers from 11-100 in Dutch

Topic 1: How to learn the numbers from 11-100

1. These numbers may seem harder to remember, but a lot of them are just the single
number you learned from the last lesson, with tien added to the end. The rest you will
have to memorize.
elf - "eleven"
twaalf - "twelve"
dertien - "thirteen"
veertien - "fourteen"
vijftien - "fifteen"
zestien - "sixteen"
zeventien - "seventeen"
achttien - "eighteen"
negentien - "nineteen"
twintig - "twenty"

2. Let's not stop at 20! Counting from twenty to one hundred is super easy! Here are the
tens:
dertig - "thirty"
veertig - "forty"
vijftig - "fifty"
zestig - "sixty"
zeventig - "seventy"
tachtig - "eighty"
negentig - "ninety"
honderd - "hundred"

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3. While you have to memorize a few of these numbers, there are a couple of tricks that
will make memorizing incredibly easy! Notice that all the numbers except honderd
consist of a number from 3 to 9, or a variation of it, followed by -tig. For example vijftig,
which means "fifty." It is composed of vijf, which means "five" and -tig. Here's another
example. Veertig, which means "forty," is composed of veer which is a variation of
vier, the word for "four," and -tig. As for honderd, it sounds a lot like the English
"hundred" and shouldn't be that hard to remember.

Language Tip!

How do you form compound numbers above twenty in Dutch? This is also quite easy to do!
All you need is the tens, the numbers you want to add, and the Dutch word for "and," en. Let's
try it out. Let's say the word for "fifty-six" step-by-step. "Fifty" is vijftig, "six" is zes, and finally
you need en, "and," to combine them - Zesenvijftig. But be careful! As you can see, instead of
placing the number behind the tens as in English, you place the number in front of the ten. So
zesenvijftig can be literally translated as "six and fifty."

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