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Numbers, Time & Days

Counting and the calendar

Numbers 1–20

Basic counting words.

📊 Numbers
Number German
1 eins
2 zwei
5 fünf
10 zehn
20 zwanzig
21 einundzwanzig
100 hundert
💬 Examples
eins, zwei, drei
one, two, three
📝 Core numbers
zehn, elf, zwölf
ten, eleven, twelve
📝 Teens
Units before tens

21 = einundzwanzig (one-and-twenty).

💬 Examples
einundzwanzig
twenty-one
📝 ein-und-zwanzig (one-and-twenty)
fünfundvierzig
forty-five
📝 Unit + und + ten
Days and time

Days of the week and telling the time.

💬 Examples
Montag, Dienstag, Mittwoch
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday
📝 Days are capitalized (they are nouns)
Wie spät ist es?
What time is it?
📝 Asking the time