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CENT, MILLE ET PLUS
ONE HUNDRED, ONE THOUSAND AND MORE

You made it so far ! the rest should be easier.
It works exactly as in English ; you group your digits by three, and add the word cent or mille, or million, milliard… at the separation.
Note that just to make it more challenging, we use periods where English use commas, and vice versa :-). To say comma, we say virgule and then the following number.

The key is BREATHING.
Since it comes at the beginning, you CANNOT pause after the word cent, you have to carry on to the 2 next digits, then breathe.
On the contrary, since it is at the end of a 3 digit row, you CAN breathe after mille, million and milliard (you even have a period here to tell you it's ok). Again, as with heure, it becomes some sort of endings to your numbers.Training does it !

Now I have a nasty surprise for you… 5,6,8 and 10 drop their final sound before a consonant, like cent, mille, million, milliard… So make sure you get it right from now on.

CENT

Never pronounce the T. Note that in the plural, cent does not take an S if followed by another number. Write trois cents but trois cent quinze.

Repeat


100, 103, 116, 145,199, 200, 267, 300, 309, 400, 478, 700, 734, 900, 999.
Watch out for 500, 524, 535, 527… 600, 646, 606… 800, 811, 846, 832, 894…

Exercise 1



524, 356, 609, 219, 165, 270, 850, 241, 990, 316, 555, 601, 987, 834, 541, 413, 987, 685, 567, 679, 304, 784, 678, 506, 515, 537, 924, 890, 275, 987, 476, 156, 376, 568, 500, 683, 809, 524, 601, 669, 505, 535, 885, 826, 436, 456, 768, 164, 467, 304, 503.

Exercise 2



773, 101, 169, 258, 334, 649, 579, 800, 259, 404, 417, 651, 296, 878, 569, 642, 623, 535, 517, 170, 779, 860, 572, 689, 968, 931, 334, 264, 814, 985, 814, 185, 332, 467, 579, 527, 560, 945, 409, 156, 867, 831, 359, 925, 999, 363, 579, 467, 239, 520, 870, 803, 610, 529.

Exercise 3



546, 76, 8, 90, 245, 2, 578, 425, 1, 678, 950, 45, 67, 687, 354, 262, 389, 705, 78, 42, 4, 68, 489, 79, 375, 596, 593, 516, 7, 904, 867, 832, 850, 804, 893, 574, 27, 69,34, 536, 4, 798, 567, 847, 427, 379, 285, 179, 195, 205, 826, 915, 826, 486, 574, 573, 590, 538, 999, 1.

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