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Lesson 4 of 10

Counting to ten in Italian

One to ten, for prices, platforms, rooms and how many beers. Play the ten Italian words against the clock, with a note on how locals really use each one after every answer. All ten are written out below.

The tiers of red and gold boxes rising around the stage at La Scala in Milan
Counting to ten
10 words · 20 seconds each · 8 of 10 to pass
What it meansHow to say it
Seth Tisue, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

All 10 Italian phrases in this lesson

UnoOO-no
One

Numbers one through ten are the foundation. "Uno" becomes "una" before feminine nouns.

DueDOO-eh
Two

Raise two fingers when ordering. Italians use the thumb-and-index gesture for one, so two fingers from the index is important to get right.

TreTREH
Three
QuattroKWAT-tro
Four
CinqueCHEEN-kweh
Five
SeiSAY
Six
SetteSET-teh
Seven
OttoOT-toh
Eight
NoveNOH-veh
Nine
DieciDYEH-chee
Ten

From dieci you build the teens: undici (11), dodici (12), tredici (13), and so on up to diciannove (19).

Where Italian is spoken

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