How do you count to 100 in Italian? And how can you use these numbers to make your fiancé do the dishes? Find out how in episode 15 of 5 Minute Italian.
Here's last week's lesson on how to count from 1 to 20.
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Today's Italian words
1 = uno
2 = due
3 = tre
4 = quattro
5 = cinque
6 = sei
7 = sette
8 = otto
9 = nove
10 = dieci
11 = undici
12 = dodici
13 = tredici
14 = quattordici
15 = quindici
16 = sedici
17 = diciassette
18 = diciotto
19 = diciannove
20 = venti
21 = ventuno
22 = ventidue
23 = ventitre
24 = ventiquattro
25 = venticinque
26 = ventisei
27 = ventisette
28 = ventotto
29 = ventinove
30 = trenta
40 = quaranta
50 = cinquanta
60 = sessanta
70 = settanta
80 = ottanta
90 = novanta
100 = cento
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Katie: How do you count to 100 in Italian, and how can you use these numbers to make your fiancé do the dishes? Find out how in 5 minute Italian, episode 15.
Ciao a tutti e benvenuti a 5 minute Italian, hi everyone and welcome to 5 minute Italian. I’m Katie…
Matteo: And I’m Matteo. Ciao.
K: In today’s episode, we’re going to learn how to count to 100 in Italian. We’re going to be building on what we learned in that lesson so if you missed it, you can go back and learn how to count to twenty first by clicking the link in the show notes below. Let’s take it from twenty to thirty first. Can you remember how to say 20?
M: Venti. Then we have ventuno….
K: So the good news is, as you can hear, it’s quite similar to English. So we get the big number first venti and then we just add the little number. So to say twenty three, we first say twenty (venti) and then we add three (tre). Ventitre. But there are a couple of exceptions.
M: Like when you add uno and otto. Twenty one is ventuno and twenty eight is ventotto.
K: And this happens because the little number starts with a vowel, like the u in uno and o in otto. When this happens, the last vowel sound in the big number, like the i in venti gets deleted. So we don’t get venti uno, but we get ventuno. Not venti otto, but ventotto.
K: So we know that thirty is…
M: trenta.
K: What’s thirty one?
M: trentuno. We delete the last vowel sound and add uno. Trentuno.
K: And thirty eight?
M: Trentotto. Again, we delete the a. Trentuno.
K: Alright so lets count from thirty to forty.
M: trentuno, trentadue, trentatre, trentaquattro, trentacinque, trentasei, trentasette, trentotto, trentanove, quaranta.
K: And the good news is that this system stays the same right up to 100, so as soon as we know the multiples of 10, we can count to 100.
M: Cinquanta is fifty, sessanta is sixty, settanta is seventy, ottanta is eighty, novanta is ninety and cento is 100.
K: So if ninety is novanta, how do you say ninety 5?
M: Novantacinque.
K: And ninety one?
M: Novantuno
K: Sixty is sessanta, so sixty four is…
M: Sessantaquattro.
K: Let’s play a quick game to practise. I have a random number generator here. Whoever guesses the closest number wins. And whoever guesses the number furthest away has to do the dishes tonight.
M: OK.
K: Think of a number…
[Number game]
K: That’s all we have time for today, thanks for listening. And if you’d like to get more mini Italian lessons delivered to your inbox, don’t forget to subscribe by following on the link in the below. Grazie, and ciao for now, see you next time, or as we say in Italian, alla prossima!
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