Numbers 11–100
Numbers 11–100
Swedish numbers above ten settle quickly into a clear, compound pattern — and, unlike English, the whole number is written and said as one solid word.
Grammar Comparison
Grammar Comparison
11–19 have their own forms, close to their single-digit roots
elva, tolv, tretton, fjorton, femton
eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen
Like English "eleven" and "twelve", the Swedish teens aren't fully predictable from scratch — but from 13 onward you can hear the root number inside them: tretton (13) clearly contains tre (three), fjorton (14) contains fyra's root, femton (15) contains fem (five). The -ton ending marks "teen", parallel to English.
Compound numbers are written as one unbroken word
tjugoett (twenty-one), trettiofem (thirty-five)
twenty-one, thirty-five
Where English keeps a hyphen between the tens and units ("twenty-one"), Swedish fuses the whole number into a single word with no space or hyphen at all: tjugoett, trettiofem. This holds true for numbers of any length — the entire number, however many digits, is one continuous word in writing.
Vocabulary
Vocabulary
- English
- eleven
- English
- twelve
- English
- thirteen
- English
- fifteen
- English
- twenty
- English
- thirty
- English
- forty
- English
- fifty
- English
- twenty-one
- English
- thirty-five
- English
- one hundred