Quatre-vingts
Eighty
Language note: Say 'katr-vant'.
Culture note: Unlike many numeric systems, France uses a base 20 system for these numbers, believed to be Celtic in origin.
Context: With time left in the lesson, the teacher moves the students to counting by tens: eighty.
Word-by-Word Breakdown
Quatre-vingts
[ka-truh-van]
Eighty
The number equivalent to four twenties.
Ils ont quatre-vingts vêtements.
They have eighty pieces of clothing.
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