Lesson Transcript

Hi, guys!
Welcome back to ItalianPod101.
My name is Desyrée.
Mi chiamo Desyrée.
But you can call me Desy.
Ma potete chiamarmi Desy.
And in this video, we're going to learn together numbers in Italian:
I numeri
For the first 10, the most important ones, I'm going to try to give you examples or, anyway, ways of saying in order for you to remember them in an easier way.
First of all, we have
uno
which is one, as in like,
Sei il numero uno!
“You are the number one!” like you're the best.
due
two
A thing that Italians like a lot, chatting:
Fare due chiacchiere.
Literally, to have two chats.
Basically, it means “to chit-chat”, so to talk a bit.
Hopefully, in front of a coffee.
And then, of course,
Non c'è due senza tre.
“There is no two without three.”
So tre is three.
quattro
If you remember two, due, with due chiacchiere,
then add
Fare due chiacchiere a quattro occhi.
Quattro occhi.
So “four eyes”, right?
Means “let's talk, just me and you.”, a quattro occhi.
Five, cinque.
Let's say “the five senses”,
I cinque sensi.
The hardest thing to pronounce in this word is
que, cin-que, because there's the
you have to stop a moment before adding -que,
because otherwise cinque, cinque, no.
Cinque.
Take your time to pronounce it slowly and then it wI'll come more naturally.
Sei
“Six”, is what high school students want because in Italy, six is what you need to pass an exam,
which is evaluated on a scale out of ten.
Sette
“Seven.”
We say
Sudare sette camicie.
so “to sweat seven shirts”, means that you're really trying and that you're really, really putting effort into it.
Then we have otto.
Otto
If you remember quattro, which is four, we say
Fare in quattro e quattr’otto,
which means “to do something in a really quick way”, it's something really fast. Quattro e quattro otto, literally “four and four, eight.”
Quattro e quattr’otto.
Nove
Il lavoro inizia alle nove.
Because usually that's when people start working in the offices, right?
Nove, nine.
And then we have dieci, ten.
Dieci.
Let's see: Italy, soccer, there's a goalkeeper and
Dieci giocatori.
“ten players.”
Dieci.
Now, dieci is a really important sound to remember.
Even if you don't remember how to say that, when you hear that, you know that it has something to do with numbers from 10 to 19.
Because in the next nine numbers too, even if you don't hear the word dieci, there's
dici or dicia, which means it has something to do with dieci.
In fact, for 11, the word is undici.
Undici.
Then we have dodici.
Dodici.
Twelve.
Thirteen is tredici.
Tredici.
Quattordici.
Fourteen.
Quattordici.
Quindici.
It's fifteen.
This Q is again like in cinque, it's in fifteen too.
Quindici.
Sedici.
Sixteen.
Sedici.
Until this point, the part that refers to dieci was at the end of the word.
From 17 to 19, it shifts to the beginning.
So, diciassette.
Diciassette.
It's seventeen.
Diciotto.
Diciotto.
It's eighteen.
And diciannove.
Diciannove.
It's nineteen.
And as I said, tI'll here, you probably just have to learn them by heart.
But from now on, things get easier.
So, breathe again, it's going to be better.
Because we have venti.
Venti
as twenty.
From there on, you just add one of the decimal numbers that you already know.
So, venti and uno become ventuno.
Just because when we have two vowels together, one goes away, right?
So, venti and uno becomes ventuno.
But then, you just say ventidue.
Ventitre.
Ventiquattro.
Venticinque.
Ventisei.
Ventisette.
Then again, with otto, which starts with a vowel, is ventotto, all together.
So, not venti and otto, but ventotto.
And then
Ventinove.
And you can work with this with the next numbers too.
Like, thirty is trenta.
Trenta.
Be careful with thirty-three, because it gets tricky.
It's
Trentatré.
Forty is quaranta.
Quaranta.
And it's easy to remember that it comes from quattro, right?
Quattro becomes quaranta.
While cinque becomes cinquanta.
So, cinquantuno, cinquantadue, and so on.
Then we have sessanta, for sixty.
Sessanta.
I know this is a bit tricky, but you just have to stop the s sound for a bit.
Sessanta.
And settanta, seventy.
So, in this case, it's not double S, but S and T.
Settanta.
Seventy.
Eighty is ottanta.
It's easy to see that it comes from otto.
Ottanta.
And ninety is novanta.
So, from nove, which is nine, novanta.
And with hundreds, too, it's easy, because once you know cento, which is a hundred,
be careful because in Italian we don't say un cento, we just leave it as it is:
Cento.
Hundred.
Then you just add the number.
Centouno.
Centodue.
Centoventi.
Centotrentasei.
I'm just giving numbers here, and that's an important expression, because in Italian when
you say
Dare i numeri.
So, basically “to say numbers, to tell numbers, to give numbers,”
literally, it means that you're a bit crazy, because you don't really know what you're
saying, and here I'm just giving numbers.
I'm just going out of my mind with random numbers.
The last number, mI'lle, thousand.
MI'lle.
Again, we don't say one thousand, but just mI'lle, while if you want to say two thousand,
then it's
Due mila.
And mI'lle is very, very, very useful, because when we want to thank someone, we just say
Grazie mI'lle.
“Thanks a thousand”, literally, but thanks a lot.
So, yeah, grazie mI'lle for watching.
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Bye!
Ciao, ciao!

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