Numbers from 70 to 99
CEFR A1 · part 1
edumaterial's parts within the level. The European framework does not subdivide them.
Accents and the cedillaPlacing é, è, ê and ç correctly, and knowing that in French an accent changes the sound…Gender that does not match your languageChoosing le or la for nouns whose gender does not match your own language.Present tense of -er verbs, with its subjectConjugating the present tense and never dropping the subject pronoun.Negating with ne … pasPlacing both halves of the negation around the verb, and not doubling it.Être and avoir, and telling your ageConjugating être and avoir in the present, and using avoir where French requires it…The plural you cannot hearMarking the plural where it shows —the article and the written -s— even though you…The rule, in three lines
French counts in twenties from seventy on: 70 = soixante-dix (60+10), 80 = quatre-vingts (4×20), 90 = quatre-vingt-dix (4×20+10). And quatre-vingts only takes an -s on its own: quatre-vingt-un, without.
The usual slip. Looking for a word for seventy, which does not exist. And writing quatre-vingts with an -s when something follows.
Why it catches you out. English has seventy, eighty and ninety as single words, so you expect one too. French is the only one of the five that counts in twenties, and it catches everyone out at the same two places: 70 and 90.