
Secondly: 21/31/41/51/61 share the same rule: “vingt/ trente/ quarante/ cinquante/ soixante” plus “et un”.(This rule was mentioned in “ Reforms of French Orthography“.) French Numbers 20 to 69 If you are not obsessed, the simple rule is to add hyphens between words in composed numbers. Well, it really depends on how obsessed you are with spelling French numbers out.

When to use the Hyphens in French NumbersĪre you wondering if there’s an easy way to memorize the use of hyphens in numbers?

When you are counting from 10 to 19 in French, you can now see two types of numbers: independent and composed numbers.Īs you might have noticed, from 17 to 19 (dix-sept, dix-huit, dix-neuf) we have the first glance of composed numbers.
