If the "1" is followed by a noun, usually the weak declension is used, being equivalent to the indefinite article:.If the 1 is not followed by a noun, it is not declined and eins is always used:.The cardinal numbers are not declined with the exception of 1, 2 and 3. (-1) minus eins minus one Declension of cardinal numbers
To show that a number is positive/negative, the words plus/minus are put in front of it. Prices are expressed with letters in the following way in German: In some countries like the USA and Mexico, the decimal sign is written as a point and, although decimal sign in Germany is officially a comma, sometimes you hear the literal translation in German: The decimal numbers are not quite the same in German and English because a comma is used instead of a point.
From the 20th to the 100th, the 1000th, the 1,000,000th add the ending -ste to the cardinal number.The 2nd and 4th up to the 19th add the ending -te to the cardinal number.The numbers in German are written as one word up to one million.An interesting thing about German which makes it confusing is that the one’s place is said before the tens: einundzwanzig, which literally would be like “one and twenty”.Eintausendeins tausendeins eintausendundeins tausendundeins
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