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Learn German for Beginners: Numbers 0 to 20

hello everyone and welcome to our video series on learn german for beginners in the previous lessons you learned a few greetings in german and a few common phrases hopefully now you can speak a bit of german in this lesson we will be learning numbers from 0 to 20. you can visit our page on patreon.com to get free worksheets podcasts transcripts early access to our videos and more so let's begin lection drain once again lexion dry sal once again once again sal is the singular form and salan is the plural form remember you have to listen and repeat so are you ready here we go null once again null eins once again eins we learned in the previous lessons that s has the sound of z but whenever the letter s occurs at the end of a german word or after the last vowel within that word it is pronounced as in english s swai once again swai the german consonant c is pronounced like the english ts sound that is found at the end of words such as mats pots bits try once again try the next one is fear once again fear the pronunciation is similar to the english word fear we have already learned that the german v has the same sound as the english f funf once again funf the two dots that you find on you are known as umlaut you will pick up the pronunciation with a few more words that we will come across in the next few lessons sex once again sex we have already learned that whenever the letter s occurs at the beginning of a german word and is followed by a vowel it is pronounced as if it were the english c similarly in the next one zeben once again sieben act once again act nine once again nine in this case e u is pronounced like o i for example in oil in english sin once again sin hope you remember the pronunciation of z in german it's ts elf once again elf swolf once again sulf well letters with umlaut in this case or with umlaut has no equivalent in english you will be picking up the pronunciation once you learn more words dratzen once again draitzine numbers from 13 to 19 follow a simple rule number plus 10 drai plus sein gives you dratzen similarly the next one fear plus sen gives you fiat sen once again fiozin and can you guess the next one funfein once again funfein zestscene once again zestscene well in this case you do bring zex and zane together but sex is used without s this is to make the pronunciation easier also the next number is slightly exceptional zip zen instead of zebensen you say zepsene once again zebtsen in this case you remove the en from zeben and add it to the scene zeptzin let's look at the next one akhtsen once again accin and the next one ninth scene once again ninth scene and now we come to the final number swanseach once again when g forms a part of an ig suffix it is pronounced as ich you might also find some people pronouncing this number as swan sig this is because they have a different dialect so now you know numbers from 0 to 20. let's move on to see how you can use these numbers to say your mobile number this question is asked formally and informally i would ask v is tina handy numa answer to both these questions is the same miner handy nummer ist null eins actzeben zak stratzwai nein fear funthe now try to read your mobile number in german let's summarize the numbers from 0 to 20 once again i'll speak and you repeat after me don't forget the two exceptions that we have here sin and zip sin null eins swai drai sieben swolf treitzin fierzin funftzin zestzin swansea great in the next video we will be learning the numbers after 20. to practice what you have learned today you can download a free worksheet from our page on patreon.com you can also gain access to our transcripts by becoming a one dollar patron and to our podcasts by becoming a five dollar patron tanker thanks for watching this video if you liked this video do give it a thumbs up and share it with your friends don't forget to subscribe to the channel if you still haven't you can click on the bell to receive notifications whenever we upload a new video if you have any comments or questions you can leave them in the comment section below choose auf wiedersehen