Numbers 11–100
Numbers 11–100
Beyond ten, Portuguese numbers settle into a predictable rhythm — a handful of new words for the tens, then simple combinations for everything in between.
Grammar Comparison
Grammar Comparison
11–15 are their own words, then a clear pattern kicks in
onze, doze, treze, catorze, quinze — then dezasseis (ten-six), dezassete (ten-seven)
eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen — then sixteen, seventeen
Like English ("eleven", "twelve"), Portuguese has irregular standalone words for 11–15. From 16 onward, though, the pattern becomes transparent: dezasseis is literally "ten-six", dezassete "ten-seven" — dez (ten) plus the digit, joined with e (and) is not even needed here, unlike the 20s onward.
From 21 up, tens and units join with e ("and")
vinte e um (twenty-and-one = 21), trinta e cinco (thirty-and-five = 35)
twenty-one, thirty-five
Where English just runs the words together with a hyphen ("twenty-one"), Portuguese keeps the word e ("and") between the tens and the unit: vinte e um, trinta e cinco. This e is not optional — dropping it would sound distinctly wrong, unlike English where the hyphen is purely a spelling convention with no spoken equivalent.
Vocabulary
Vocabulary
- English
- eleven
- English
- twelve
- English
- fifteen
- English
- sixteen
- English
- twenty
- English
- thirty
- English
- forty
- English
- fifty
- English
- twenty-one
- English
- thirty-five
- English
- one hundred