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The counting and numbers in German are not difficult to learn. Counting in English and counting in German are quite similar and sound similar. Learning numbers from one to ten are especially significant as they are used to form higher numbers. Let’s count - lasst uns zählen!

Numbers 0 – 10 0 – null
1 – eins
2 – zwei
3 – drei
4 – vier
5 – funf
6 – sechs
7 – sieben
8 – acht
9 – neun
10 – zehn

Numbers 11 – 30
The German numbers 11 – 30 pursue a similar pattern to English.
11 – elf
12 – zwolf
13 – dreizehn
14 – vierzehn
15 – funfzehn
16 – sechzehn
17 – siebzehn
18 – achtzehn
19 – neunzehn
20 – zwanzig
21 - einundzwanzig
22 - zweiundzwanzig
23 - dreiundzwanzig
24 - vierundzwanzig
25 - fünfundzwanzig
26 - sechsundzwanzig
27 - siebenundzwanzig
28 - achtundzwanzig
29 - neunundzwanzig
30 – dreißig

Numbers 31 - 40
31 - einunddreißig
32 - zweiunddreißig
33 - dreiunddreißig
34 - vierunddreißig
35 - fünfunddreißig
36 - sechsunddreißig
37 - siebenunddreißig
38 - achtunddreißig
39 – neununddreißig
40 – vierzig

The German numbers 1 – 99 are shaped according to rules that are easy to learn and quite simple. The suffix – zehn (10) is added to every number from 3 to 9, and the “teens” are formed. But make a note that 6 - sechs and 7 - sieben are condensed or shortened to sech- and sieb- respectively. The suffix hundert- is used for the multiples of hundred like for 200 – zweihundert, 300 – dreihundert and so on.

Bigger Numbers
100 - hundert
1,000 - tausend
1,000,000 - eine Million
1,000,000,000,000 - eine Billion

There are few numbers such as 10, 20, and 100 which are irregular like zehn, zwanzig, and einhundert.