Purpose

By the end of this lesson, you will be able to count from 0 to 100 in Italian and use numbers in basic everyday contexts.

Lesson Explanation

Numbers 0-10:

zero 0   uno 1   due 2   tre 3   quattro 4
cinque 5  sei 6  sette 7  otto 8  nove 9  dieci 10

Numbers 11-20, mostly single fused words:

undici 11   dodici 12   tredici 13   quattordici 14   quindici 15
sedici 16   diciassette 17   diciotto 18   diciannove 19   venti 20

From 20 onward, tens and ones fuse into a single word — but with a genuinely distinctive rule with no equivalent in Spanish, French, or German: when the ones digit is 1 (uno) or 8 (otto), the final vowel of the tens word is dropped before attaching:

venti + uno → ventuno (not "ventiuno")
venti + otto → ventotto (not "ventiotto")
trenta 30   quaranta 40   cinquanta 50   sessanta 60
settanta 70   ottanta 80   novanta 90   cento 100

Unlike Spanish’s uno/una shortening before nouns (a pattern from an earlier-built Gabal course), Italian uno follows the indefinite article pattern covered in the very next lesson, changing to un, uno, or una depending on the following noun’s gender and initial sound.

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