German Numbers 1 to 100 – Learn to Count in 4 Easy Steps

Hey Junkie!

If you are learning German – all those letters, phrases, and grammar rules – You need NUMBERS too.  Today, you’ll learn the German numbers 1 to 100.

Here’s how to count German numbers from 1 to 100. If you want to just want to learn 1 to 10, don’t worry –  I break these down step-by-step so you’re not confused. So take this lesson…

• Learn the German Numbers 1 to 100
• Review this often: success comes from REPETITION
• Print it out to have physical study material (i do it all the time)
  
• Follow the 4 easy steps

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Step 1: Learn to count in German from 1 to 10. 

All you have to do here is memorize. That’s why I say print this lesson out.

You’ll also need to know these for when you want to say numbers like 23, 55, 89. Don’t worry, we’ll get to that in Step 4.

Done?

Let’s go to the next step.

Step 3: Learning the 10s, 20s, 30… to 100.

Now, counting to 100 in German is easy.

But, we’re going to learn the tens first.

Why? It’ll help you learn the in-between numbers later. To say the tens (like, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90) you need to know this rule.

• Rule: Refer to the numbers you learned in Step 1 from 1-9 then add “zig”
  • Told you you’ll need to use those again!
• So, you know that vier is 4, right?.
• So, vier+zig = vierzig = 40.

It’s that easy. Take a look below and compare it with Step 1. All you’re doing is taking numbers from Step 1 and adding “zig.”

The only special one is one hundred, which is ein-hundert.

Step 4: German in-between numbers like 21, 45, 78, 99

You need to know this second rule.

• Rule
• A: Start with the numbers you learned from 1-9 in Step 1
• B: Add “und”
• C: Then refer to the tens (20, 30, 50, etc. .. 90) in Step 3
• D: Add A+B+C

So, say you want to say 22. Start with the numbers you learned from 1-9

• Rule: Add A+B+C
• A: Start with the numbers you learned from 1-9 in Step 1
  • 2 is zwan
• B: Add “und”
  • add und
    
  • now you have zwan und
• C: Then refer to the tens (20, 30, 50, etc. .. 90) in Step 3
  • twenty is zwanzig
• D: Add A+B+C
  • so, zwan+und+zwanzig
  • the answer is: zwanundzwanzig

So, zwanundzwanzig is how you say 22. It’s saying like 2 and 20. That’s it. Here are more examples for you.

Conclusion

Done! Now, you can count German numbers 1 to 100. This should’ve taken you about 10 minutes or less.

Did you find this lesson useful? Leave me a comment – I read them all.

– The Main Junkie

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