Numbers in French

In Luxembourg and the Saarland, the neighbor to the east have/had 3 written languages. They were Latin, French and German. Letzenburger is 4th language unique to Luxembourg.

In some genealogical records, numbers are written out. The following list gives the cardinal (1, 2, 3) and the ordinal (1st, 2nd, 3rd) versions of each number. Dates are usually written in ordinal form.

From 60 to 99, the French count by twenties rather than by tens. Thus, 70 in French is sixty-ten, and 71 is sixty-eleven. The number 80 is four-twentie;, 81 is four- twenties-one; 91 is fourt-twenties-eleven; and so on through 99, which is four-twenties- ninteen.

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