If you live in Val d'Oise (95) you will need to say quatre-vingt quinze for your département number, rather than cheating and saying neuf cinq (the exeption to this rule is le neuf trois). So a Peugeot 206 is 'two oh six' in English but deux cent six in French. To make things more difficult, large numbers in French are generally spoken as a whole rather than broken down into digits.
Ninety-nine translates to 'four-twenty-ten-nine' or quatre-vingt-dix-neuf.Ĭan you imagine the life of salesman trying to flog discount TVs for €99.99?
With French, it isn’t just about being good at the language, in order to get to grips with these higher numbers it seems you need to be good at mental maths too… Take 77 for example, or rather, ‘sixty-ten-seven’ as it would be said in French.
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