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Lesson 6A1
Numbers 1–10
Numbers 1–10
The first ten German numbers are the building blocks for every larger number you'll ever say — worth memorizing to instant recall before moving on.
Grammar Comparison
Grammar Comparison
Numbers don't change for gender or case (mostly)
German
eins, zwei, drei...
English
one, two, three...
Unlike German nouns and articles, the numbers 2–12 are invariant regardless of the gender or case of what they're counting — a rare patch of simplicity in German grammar. The exception is eins ("one"), which behaves like the indefinite article ein/eine and does change to match gender and case, exactly the way English "a/an" would if it had genders: ein Mann, eine Frau, ein Kind all mean "one man/woman/child" as much as "a man/woman/child."
Vocabulary
Vocabulary
| German | Pronunciation | English |
|---|---|---|
| eins | eyns | one |
| zwei | tsvy | two |
| drei | dry | three |
| vier | feer | four |
| fünf | fewnf | five |
| sechs | zeks | six |
| sieben | ZEE-ben | seven |
| acht | ahkht | eight |
| neun | noyn | nine |
| zehn | tsayn | ten |
| null | nool | zero |