Zahlen 1 bis 100

Luxembourgish counts like German: from 21 on, the units come before the tens, joined by an (and). Twenty-one is "one-and-twenty". This is the part English speakers trip over, especially with phone numbers and prices.

1 to 20

The tens

30 drësseg, 40 véierzeg, 50 fofzeg, 60 sechzeg, 70 siwwenzeg, 80 achtzeg, 90 nonzeg, 100 honnert.

Notice the irregular stems: 15 and 50 use fof-, not fënnef-, and 16 to 19 change the spelling of the unit (siechzéng, siwwenzéng, uechtzéng, nonzéng).

21 to 99: units first

The joining an follows the n-rule too: it keeps its -n before d, z and vowels (fënnefandrësseg, eenanzwanzeg) and becomes a before other consonants (aachtavéierzeg, siwenasechzeg).

One and two with a noun

Counting, you say eent, zwee, dräi. In front of a noun, "one" and "two" agree with its gender: een Euro, eng Taass - one cup; zwee Kanner - two children, but zwou Fraen - two women. Zwou is the feminine "two", a form German no longer has.

At the bakery: Dat mécht véierandrësseg Euro. - That's thirty-four euros. Listen for the unit first.