Tips for Pronouncing Numbers in American English Correctly

21 - twenty-one (hyphen)

22 - twenty-two

23 - twenty-three

30 - thirty

35 - thirty-five

40 - forty

42 - forty-two

50 - fifty

58 - fifty-eight

60 - sixty

61 - sixty-one

70 - seventy

73 - seventy-three

80 - eighty

86 - eighty-six

90 - ninety

99 - ninety-nine

Notice that you need to use a hyphen (-) when you write the numbers between 21 and 99.

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100 - one hundred or  a hundred

101 - one hundred and one or a hundred and one (Br.E.)

101 - one hundred one or a hundred one (Am.E.)

127 - one hundred twenty-seven or a hundred twenty-seven

200 - two hundred

203 two hundred three

300 - three hundred

622 six hundred twenty-two

900 – nine hundred

1,000 - one thousand or a thousand

1,803 one thousand, eight hundred three

1,963 one thousand, nine hundred sixty-three

2,000 – two thousand

2,840 two thousand, eight hundred forty

21,000 - twenty-one thousand

30,000 – thirty thousand

85,000 – eighty-five thousand

1,000,000 - one million or a million

10,000,000 - ten million

 

Notice that hundred, thousand, million, … are in singular

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A bonus video:

"fifty" or "fifteen"? Pronunciation of numbers in American English

 

Homework:

http://www.learningchocolate.com/content/numbers-3 - Practice the pronunciation and do the dictation