Numbers in German
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, dates & numbers are spelled out. This is expecially true of
dates. The following list give the cardinal (1, 2, 3) and the ordinal (1st, 2nd, 3rd)
versions of each number. Days of the month are written in ordinal form. Ordinal forms
may have other endings, for example: erste, ersten.
1 - eins | 1st - erste | |
2 - zwei | 2nd - zweite, zweyte | |
3 - drei | 3rd - dritte | |
4 - vier | 4th - vierte | |
5 - funf | 5th - funfte | |
6 - sechs | 6th - sechste | |
7 - sieben | 7th - siebte, siebente | |
8 - acht | 8th - achte | |
9 - neun | 9th - neunte | |
10 - zehn | 10th - zehnte | |
11 - elf | 11th - elfte | |
12 - zwölf | 12th - zwölfte | |
13 - dreizehn | 13th - dreizehnte | |
14 vierzehn | 14th - vierzehnte | |
15 - fünfzehn | 15th - fünfzehnte | |
16 - sechzehn | 16th - sechzehnte | |
17 - siebzehn | 17th - siebzehnte | |
18 - achtzehn | 18th - achtzehnte | |
19 - neunzehn | 19th - neunzehnte | |
20 - zwanzig | 20th - zwanzigste | |
21 - einundzwanzig | 21st - einundzwanzigste | |
22 - zweiundzwanzig | 22nd - zweiundzwanzigste | |
23 - dreiundzwanzig | 23rd - dreiundzwanzigste | |
24 - vierundzwanzig | 24th - vierundzwanzigste | |
25 - fünfundzwanzig | 25th - fünfundzwanzigste | |
26 - sechsundzwanzig | 26th - sechsundzwanzigste | |
27 - siebenundzwanzig | 27th - siebenundzwanzigste | |
28 - achtundzwanzig | 28th - achtundzwanzigste | |
29 - neunundzwanzig | 29th - neunundzwanzigste | |
30 - dreißig | 30th - dreißigste | |
31 - einunddreißig | 31st - einunddreißigste | |
40 - vierzig | 40th - vierzigste | |
50 - funfzig | 50th - funfzigste | |
60 - sechzig | 60th - sechzigste | |
70 - siebzig | 70th - siebzigste | |
80 - achtzig | 80th - achtzigste | |
90 - neunzig | 90th - neunzigste | |
100 - hundert | 100th - hunderste | |
1000 - tausend | 1000th - tausendste |