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Grammar /  Numbers

Numbers
Dates
When naming years, the first two figures are said as a cardinal number, then the word „-hundert” „hundred” and
then the last two figures also as cardinal number.

From the year 2000, the whole four-figure number is said as a cardinal number .

1975
neuzehnhundertfünfundsiebzig
nineteen hundred and seventy five
2013
zweitausenddreizehn
two thousand and thirteen

wann? (= when?)
1975
neuzehnhundertfünfundsiebzig / im Jahre neuzehnhundertfünfundsiebzig
in the year nineteen hundred and seventy five
1975 – 1980
von neuzehnhundertfünfundsiebzig bis neunzehnhundertachtzig
from nineteen seventy five to nineteen eighty

Ordinal numbers
Ordinal numbers are formed as follows:
from1st to 19th: ending '-te'; from 20th: ending '-ste'.

1. – 19.
– te
20. – ...
– ste

Exceptions:

1.
der erste (= the first)
3.
der dritte (= the third)
7.
der siebte (= the seventh)
8.
der achte (= the eighth)

After the words „am / vom / bis zum /seit dem / ab dem“ – „on the / from the / until the / since the / from the“ –
the ending from1st to 19th is „-ten“; from 20th the ending is „-sten“.

wann? (= when?)

am (= on the) , vom (= from the) , bis zum (= until the) , seit dem (= since the) , ab dem (= from
the)

1. – 19.
– ten
20. – ...
– sten

11.09.2002
am elften September zweitausendzwei
on the eleventh of September two thousand and two
am 15.03.
am fünfzehnten März
on the fifteenth March
 11.09.2002 – 12.10.2012
vom elften September zweitausendzwei bis zum zwölften Oktober zweitausendzwölf
from the eleventh September two thousand and two until the twelth October two thousand and
twelve
12.10.2012
ab / seit dem zwölften Oktober zweitausendzwölf
from/since the twelth of October two thousand and twelve
ab 30.04.
ab dem dreißigsten April
from the thirtieth of April

Locations with ordinal numbers

After the word 'im', the words from 1st to 19th have the ending '-ten'; from 20th the ending '-sten'.

wo? (= where?)

im 7. Bezirk = im siebten Bezirk = in the seventh district

im 21. Bezirk = im einundzwanzigsten Bezirk = in the twenty first district

im 1. Stock = im ersten Stock = on the first floor

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