I've been enjoying my German class twice a week. On Tuesdays and Thursdays I ride the bus with the kids after school to the main BFA high school campus to sit and learn German for an hour. One of my favorite things that we've learned so far is the German number system. It may seem simple, but knowing the numbers gives you an enormous advantage when you're out and about. The cash registers don't always have a screen to tell you how much to pay, and unless you know the numbers that the lovely store people tell you, you stare at them blankly as they repeat it several times, most likely thinking dirty thoughts about Americans. ;)
0: null (nool)
1: eins (eye-ns)
2: zwei (tsv-eye)
3: drei (dry)
4: vier (fear)
5: fünf (foon-f)
6: sechs (zex)
7: sieben (zee-ben)
8: acht (oct)
9: neun (noy-n)
10: zehn (ts-ay-n)
When you get into the bigger numbers, the ones are said before the tens.
14: vierzehn
19: neunzehn
The fun thing with the big numbers is that all the parts are combined together into one gigantically long word. For example:
999: neunhundertneunundneunzig
2,843: zweitausendachthundertdreiundvierzig
10,962: zehntausendneunhundertzweiundsechzig
Such fun!
