Unit 4 · Numbers & timeA1Lesson 3 of 5: Up to a hundred
Numbers up to 100 in European Portuguese
This is lesson 3 of 5 in Unit 4, Numbers & time (Números e horas), an A1 unit in which you count to a hundred, say your age, tell the time and name the days of the week. It teaches 9 words and phrases, including dezasseis (sixteen), dezassete (seventeen) and dezoito (eighteen), and uses them in 10 example sentences. The unit’s grammar notes cover “Ter: age and having” and “Telling the time”.
Words in this lesson
| Portuguese | English |
|---|---|
dezasseis | sixteenPortugal writes dezasseis, dezassete and dezanove with an a. |
dezassete | seventeen |
dezoito | eighteen |
dezanove | nineteen |
vinte | twenty21 is vinte e um, 22 is vinte e dois. |
trinta | thirty |
quarenta | forty |
cinquenta | fifty |
cem | a hundredExactly 100. From 101 it becomes cento: cento e um. |
Example sentences
- Eu tenho dezasseis anos.I'm sixteen.
- A Sofia tem dezassete anos.Sofia is seventeen.
- O Diogo tem dezoito anos e é estudante.Diogo is eighteen and he's a student.
- Tu tens dezanove anos?Are you nineteen?
- Não, eu tenho vinte anos.No, I'm twenty.
- Eles têm trinta anos.They're thirty.
- O professor tem quarenta anos.The teacher is forty.
- A médica tem cinquenta anos.The doctor is fifty.
- Cinquenta mais cinquenta são cem.Fifty plus fifty is a hundred.
- Vinte e um, vinte e dois, vinte e três.Twenty-one, twenty-two, twenty-three.Tens and units are joined with e: vinte e um.
Grammar notes
The grammar notes for this lesson are on the page for Unit 4: Numbers & time: