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In France, what number is quatre-vingts?

Quatre-vingts, literally four twenties, is 80.

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  1. 24
  2. 80 ✔
  3. 420

Why: Quatre means four and vingt means twenty, so four twenties make 80. The s appears in quatre-vingts, but drops before another number.

Huh, didn't know that: 81 is quatre-vingt-un, without the s.

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Why did the French number 80 feel so strong? It was made of four twenties.
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Answer: 80. Quatre means four and vingt means twenty, so four twenties make 80. The s appears in quatre-vingts, but drops before another number.

  1. Larousse French-English: quatre-vingts www.larousse.fr/dictionnaires/francais-anglais/quatre-vingts
    quatre-vingts [ katrəvε̃ ] déterminant eighty quatre-vingts personnes eighty people
    Checked 2026-10-12.

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