French/Vocabulary/Dates, time, and numbers

Days of the week

 * The days of the week are not capitalized in French.
 * The calendar starts on Monday
 * For phrases relating to the day of the week, see the phrasebook.

The Months of the Year

 * The months of the year are not capitalized in French.
 * For phrases relating to the months of the year, see the phrasebook

Les nombres (adjectifs numéraux cardinaux et ordinaux)

 * This pattern changes slightly after the sixties:
 * Numbers seventy to seventy-nine are configured in the form of soixante-[10-19]. For example seventy is soixante-dix (60-10), seventy-three is soixante-treize (60-13), and seventy-seven is soixante-dix-sept (60-10-7).
 * Number eighty is configured in the form of quatre-vingts (4 - 20's) || catr vahn || eighty
 * Numbers eighty-one to ninety-nine are configured in the form of quatre-vingt-[01-19]. For example eighty-one is quatre-vingt-un (4*20-one), ninety is quatre-vingt-dix (4*20-10), and ninety-four is quatre-vingt-quatorze(4*20-14).


 * une dizaine (one ten)
 * une douzaine (one dozen)


 * The French commonly use '.' instead of ',' to separate thousands.
 * For 70-79, it builds upon "soixante" but past that it builds upon a combination of terms for 80-99.
 * Only the first (21,31,41,51,etc.) have "et un"; but past this it is simply both words consecutively (vingt-six, trente-trois, etc).
 * For 100-199, it looks much like this list already save that "cent" is added before the rest of the number; this continues up to 1000 and onward.

The Time

 * Use heure in between the hour and the minutes when telling the time, e.g., Il est cinq heures dix
 * Note that there is no "a.m." or "p.m." in French. Use du matin, de l'après midi, and du soir to disambiguate a given time. "Il est sept heures du soir" makes it clear that it is 7 o'clock at night, and not in the morning. Alternatively, you could use the 24-hour system: "Il est dix-neuf heures" has no ambiguity; time is often expressed in this fashion, particularly in professional/commercial settings.
 * Midi and minuit can be used without an article when telling the time: "Il est midi." (It is noon.)