How to count in German

Enter a number and read it spelled out in German.

Language overview

West Germanic language of the Indo-European family, German (Deutsch) is the official language of Germany, Austria, Switzerland (alongside with French, Italian and Romansh), Luxembourg (with Luxembourgish and French) and Liechtenstein. It counts 100 million speakers.

German numbering rules

  • Digits and numbers from zero to twelve are specific words: null [0], eins [1], zwei [2], drei [3], vier [4], fünf [5], sechs [6], sieben [7], acht [8], neun [9], zehn [10], elf [11], and zwölf [12].
  • From thirteen to nineteen, the numbers are formed from the matching digits, adding the word for ten (zehn) at the end: dreizehn [13], vierzehn [14], fünfzehn [15], sechzehn [16], siebzehn (and not siebenzehn) [17], achtzehn [18], and neunzehn [19].
  • The tens are formed by adding the suffix -zig at the end of the digits, with the exception of ten, twenty and seventy, still irregular, as well as thirty: zehn [10], zwanzig [20], dreißig [30] (-zig becomes -ßig), vierzig [40], fünfzig [50], sechzig [60], siebzig [70], achtzig [80], and neunzig [90].
  • From twenty-one to ninety-nine, the tens and units are joined with the und (and) word, but in reverse order, as the unit is said before the ten (e.g.: einunddreißig [31], fünfunddreißig [35]).
  • Hundred (hundert) and thousand (tausend) are not separated from the other numbers by a space (e.g.: hunderteinundzwanzig [121], tausendzweihundertneunzehn [1,219]).
  • The unit eins (one) loses its final -s when composed in a number, unless it is the only value after a scale name (e.g.: hunderteins [101], tausendeins [1,001]).
  • The German language uses the long scale for big numbers where every new word greater than a million is one million times bigger than the previous term. Thus, eine Milliarde is 109 (the US billion), and eine Billion (1012) worths a thousand US billions.

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Numbers list

1 – eins
2 – zwei
3 – drei
4 – vier
5 – fünf
6 – sechs
7 – sieben
8 – acht
9 – neun
10 – zehn
11 – elf
12 – zwölf
13 – dreizehn
14 – vierzehn
15 – fünfzehn
16 – sechzehn
17 – siebzehn
18 – achtzehn
19 – neunzehn
20 – zwanzig
30 – dreißig
40 – vierzig
50 – fünfzig
60 – sechzig
70 – siebzig
80 – achtzig
90 – neunzig
100 – hundert
1,000 – tausend
one million – eine Million
one billion – eine Milliarde
one trillion – eine Billion

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