Guide · Practice plan

French numbers from 70 to 100, by ear

Reading soixante-dix-sept is easy. Catching it in a phone number is the hard part. A short plan for training your ear.

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Why these thirty numbers

From 70, French stops giving each ten a word of its own. The seventies are sixty plus a teen, the eighties are four twenties plus a unit, and the nineties are four twenties plus a teen.

By ear that means the first word does not tell you the ten. Soixante can start 60 or 76, and quatre-vingt can start 80 or 96.

A plan in four steps

  1. Anchor the tens: soixante-dix, quatre-vingts, quatre-vingt-dix. Say each one ten times.
  2. Do the sixty family, 70 to 79. Listen for the teen after soixante: soixante-et-onze, soixante-douze, soixante-seize.
  3. Do the twenties family, 80 to 99. The break is at quatre-vingt-dix: after it the unit is a teen again.
  4. Mix them. Have someone read out prices and phone numbers, or use a quiz that draws from the whole range.

Every number from 70 to 100

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NumberFrench
70soixante-dix
71soixante-et-onze
72soixante-douze
73soixante-treize
74soixante-quatorze
75soixante-quinze
76soixante-seize
77soixante-dix-sept
78soixante-dix-huit
79soixante-dix-neuf
80quatre-vingts
81quatre-vingt-un
82quatre-vingt-deux
83quatre-vingt-trois
84quatre-vingt-quatre
85quatre-vingt-cinq
86quatre-vingt-six
87quatre-vingt-sept
88quatre-vingt-huit
89quatre-vingt-neuf
90quatre-vingt-dix
91quatre-vingt-onze
92quatre-vingt-douze
93quatre-vingt-treize
94quatre-vingt-quatorze
95quatre-vingt-quinze
96quatre-vingt-seize
97quatre-vingt-dix-sept
98quatre-vingt-dix-huit
99quatre-vingt-dix-neuf
100cent

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Lexie's listen mode reads each number aloud with the word underneath. Voice mode has you say it back.

Published 11 November 2026. The number and verb forms on this page are exported from Lexie itself.

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Practise the range here

Most of this round is drawn from 70 to 99. Tap the speaker after each answer to hear the number.

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97

Questions

Why are French numbers from 70 to 99 hard to hear?

Because the first word does not settle the ten. Soixante can start a number in the sixties or the seventies, and quatre-vingt can start one in the eighties or the nineties.

How do you say 99 in French?

quatre-vingt-dix-neuf: four twenties and nineteen.

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