Can you name the Numbers in German?

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German: Numbers Quiz

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Created by: Florandie -
Contributed: November 1st, 2009
Published: February 10th, 2010
Category: Language
Plays: 29,020

Tags: Numbers Quizzes, German Quizzes, english

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	Psycho:	Feb 10th, 2010 at 16:08 GMT	8 points
	Zwo is used when reading a series of number, for example a phone number, to distinguish from drei that might sound similar.

	millionaire1999:	Feb 10th, 2010 at 16:50 GMT	7 points
	DIE ZAHLEN!!! JA!!!!!!

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	milkmeister:	Feb 10th, 2010 at 16:52 GMT	19 points
	I must admit I didn't remember it was dreissig rather than dreizig. Good to see English isn't the only language with occasional strange exceptions to rules!

	OscilatingGibbon:	Feb 10th, 2010 at 17:48 GMT	8 points
	Do you know what five plus four is? NEIN!

	SunniD806:	Feb 10th, 2010 at 18:03 GMT	7 points
	Alright so I still remember all my numbers, but I have to admit I thought it was dreizig, not spelled with an esset. Suprising!

	ib0112:	Feb 10th, 2010 at 19:19 GMT	4 points
	zwo is pretty old school..

	midlifecrisis:	Feb 10th, 2010 at 20:53 GMT	2 points
	My German from 35 years ago got me 24 out of 28, and I thought I typed in two correctly but I must have typoed a letter.

	fmtiger124:	Feb 10th, 2010 at 21:49 GMT	-1 points
	zwo is used in phone numbers as psycho said....I take German in school so this was easy. Though one thing I might suggest is generally if you aren't able to access the umlauts in computer characters you put oe or ae or ue, that could make it a big more authentic though you would get a lot of complaints. Though to be honest i didn't try the oe, ae or ue so it might already be accepted

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	TwilightPrincess:	Feb 10th, 2010 at 23:22 GMT	3 points
	I love German class. :D Too easy. ;)

	Kassiopeia:	Feb 10th, 2010 at 23:34 GMT	14 points
	@ Bulletchewer6: I am German and I can assure you that "dreißig" is perfectly correct. It's not traditional in any way. "Dreizig" is not used at all. I have never heard that in my entire life and honestly I personally wouldn't accept it at all. That just sounds awfully wrong.

	twotoneboy:	Feb 10th, 2010 at 23:59 GMT	-2 points
	Danke shoen, Frau Punmer und drei jarre auf Deutsch in Gymnasium.

	performax:	Feb 11th, 2010 at 03:41 GMT	5 points
	Ausgezeichnet! Ich bin ein Sporcle Spieler von Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika. Ich studierte Deutsch fur vier Jahre in der Schule. I enjoy the sound of German. One of my favorite German words is Schmetterling (butterfly). Mehr Deutscher Prufunge bitte. - Vielen Dank

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	pdu:	Feb 11th, 2010 at 08:21 GMT	7 points
	@Bulletchewer6: Becoming more popular doesn't mean it's correct. People write dreissig online, when they are lazy or simply don't have a German keyboard (It's also popular to write "could/would/… of" in English, still it's horribly wrong). Your version "dreizig" might derive from "ß" being developed from the altdeutsch "sz". It's totally wrong, though.

	Kassiopeia:	Feb 11th, 2010 at 08:26 GMT	3 points
	@ Bulletchewer6: If that's what you meant, I'll accept it, although I personally wouldn't write that number with a "ss" instead of a "ß". But you are right, despite of the german orthography rules (which as far as I know only allow "dreissig" in Switzerland where they don't use the "ß" at all), more and more Germans do accept that. BUT, that's not what you wrote! "...although 'dreizig' is becoming more popular and is perfectly acceptable."

	Kassiopeia:	Feb 11th, 2010 at 08:28 GMT	3 points
	@ pdu: Thank you!

	choco87:	Feb 11th, 2010 at 10:49 GMT	2 points
	ß or ss for the ones peeking. got em all!!

	Brax:	Feb 11th, 2010 at 11:00 GMT	5 points
	I'm German. I think it's "dreißig" instead of "dreizig", because the -zig ending is used if there is a consonant in front of it. Also, it's interesting why it's "zwanzig" and not "zweizig". I don't know why, though. :D Probably from Old Germanic or because "zweizig" sounds dumb and is used more often than "dreißig".

	Bulletchewer6:	Feb 11th, 2010 at 15:01 GMT	0 points
	To clarify: "dreizig" is incorrect (that was the test). Dreissig is becoming more popular, mainly because the 'sharfes s' is gradually disappearing in favour of 'ss', which is just as correct as ß (they mean EXACTLY the same thing).

	Tir_McDohl:	Feb 11th, 2010 at 16:36 GMT	4 points
	13 should be drölf.

	rockhopperlad:	Feb 12th, 2010 at 03:21 GMT	5 points
	I realized partway into this that I could, indeed, only count to twelve in German.

	Brax:	Feb 12th, 2010 at 13:32 GMT	2 points
	Haha, don't vote Tir down, that's a popular joke. :p

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	SuperEagle:	May 3rd, 2010 at 00:09 GMT	2 points
	German was my favourite subject in school. Loved it :)

	C_IVLIVS_BACCVS:	May 20th, 2010 at 10:30 GMT	1 point
	Just 1/3 got "dreißig", all others were caught more than 6/10 ... I think it's really hard to understand for foreign people why 30 is written with "ß" (ss) and all the others are written with "z"... (vierZig, fünfZig, sechZig... but drei_ß_ig...)

	ninchen:	Jul 7th, 2010 at 21:39 GMT	6 points
	@percyjackson517: your comment is wrong on sooo many levels (including the picture)

	deadeye:	Sep 18th, 2010 at 01:14 GMT	2 points
	I can name them, but I can't spell them!

	devilsfan15:	Oct 2nd, 2010 at 20:48 GMT	1 point
	Like deadeye, I could say them but had no clue how to spell most of them. I really thought one was ein (I also tried eine). 7th grade German was nearly 40 years ago...

	xetcaf:	Apr 16th, 2011 at 21:01 GMT	3 points
	Deutsch ist prima!Ich liebe Deutsch. Es ist sehr,sehr gut.

	vcgfdfgd:	Apr 18th, 2011 at 23:09 GMT	2 points
	i always want to follow the pattern and but siebenzig for 70

	Toby123:	Aug 1st, 2011 at 06:47 GMT	1 point
	Good game! Worth having a go at!!

	Ulkomaalainen:	Aug 20th, 2011 at 23:51 GMT	1 point
	@devilsfan15: ein/eine is of course related, but it's the indefinite article (masculine/neuter and feminine respectively), like a/an. Also you would find it when counting "ein Apfel" could be "an apple" as well as "one apple". But the number itself is called "eins". So you're better than you think :)