In all the following, pronounce the t in cinquante very strongly. 50 cinquante fifty. 51 cinquante et un fifty-one. 52 cinquante-deux fifty-two. 53 cinquante-trois fifty-three. 54 cinquante-quatre fifty-four. 55 56 cinquante-cinq fifty-five. fifty-six. 57 cinquante-sept fifty-seven. 58 cinquante-huit fifty-eight. 59 cinquante-neuf fifty-nine. In all the following, pronounce soi sant, giving to the ss, the strong and pure hissing sound of s; and pronounce the t very strongly. 96 quatre-vingt-seize ninety-two. ninety-three. ninety-four. ninety-five. ninety-six. 97 quatre-vingt-dix-sept (dis) ninety-seven. 98 quatre-vingt-dix-huit (diz) ninety-eight. 99 quatre-vingt-dix-neuf (diz) ninety-nine. 100 cent 101 cent un one hundred. one hundred & one. Nombres Cardinaux. 115 cent quinze 120 121 cent vingt et un 400 quatre cents 1,000 mille 2,000 deux mille 3,000 trois mille 100,000 cent mille 200,000 deux cent mille 300,000 trois cent mille 1,000,000 un million 2,000,000 deux millions 3,000,000 trois millions Cardinal Numbers. one hundred & fifteen, four hundred. one thousand. three thousand, &c. [&c. NOTE, 1st. Although onze eleven, and onzième eleventh, begin by a vowel, when the article is put before them, it does not suffer elision; for we say le onze, le onzième, and not l'onze, l'onzième: we say also, sur les onze heures, pronounced sur lè onze heures, and not sur lè zonze heures. 2d. Remark that in French, we use the conjunction et and, although not used in English, in the following numbers: vingt et un, vingt et une, twenty-one; trente et un, trente et une, thirtyone; quarante et un, quarante et une, forty-one; cinquante et un, cinquante et une, fifty-one; soixante et un, soixante et une, sixtyone; soixante et dix, seventy. The above, are the only ones used with et and,-for, though we say vingt et un, &c., we cannot say vingt et deux, &c.; some say and write soixante et onze, soixante ct douze; but it is not right. 3d. The following mode of counting in English, one-and-twenty, six-and-thirty, fc., is not used in French. 4th. When in quatre-vingts, vingt, is immediately followed by a noun, either expressed or understood, it takes an s, as the mark of the plural. We say, for instance, quatre-vingts chevaux eighty horses; how many books have you? j'en ai quatre-vingts, I have eighty, &c.; but if in quatre-vingts, vingt is followed immediately by an other number, it does not take s, and we say quatre-vingttrois chevaux, eighty-three horses; how many books have you? j'en ai quatre-vingt-quatre, I have eighty-four, &c. 5th. When in deux cents, trois cents, &c.; cent is immediately followed by a noun, either expressed or understood, it takes an 8, as the mark of the plural; we say, for instance, trois cents livres three hundred books; how many pens have you? j'en ai quatre cents I have four hundred, &c.; but if in deux cents, trois cents, &c.; cent is immediately followed by an other number, it does not take s, and we say trois cent six livres three hundred and six books; how many pens have you? j'en ai cinq cent huit I have five hundred and eight, &c. 6th. Mille thousand, takes no s as mark of the plural; we say deux mille two thousand, &c.; but mille mile, takes an s for the plural, as-il y a deux milles de B. à P. it is two miles from B. to P. Mil instead of mille, is used for the date of the year, thus we write, mil huit cent trente one thousand eight hundred and thirty. 7th. Observe that a, one, put in English, before hundred and before thousand, are not expressed in French; and that and put in English after hundred and after thousand, when followed by another number, is not expressed in French; thus we say, for instance, cent cinquante tables one hundred and fifty tables; mille soixante tables one thousand and sixty tables, &c. 8th. In some parts of France, instead of soixante et dix, soixanteonze, &c.; they say septante, septante-un, septante-deux, &c. 9th. Instead of quatre-vingts, quatre-vingt-un, quatre-vingtdeux, &c.; they say, octante, octante-un, octante-deux, &c. 10th. Instead of quatre-vingt-dix, quatre-vingt-onze, quatrevingt-douze, &c.; they say nonante, nonante-un, nonante-deux, &c. |