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Ok, the biggest difficulty which English-speakers experience with German numbers is that cardinal numbers above twenty appear to be formed “backwards”. When English speakers say “twenty-four”, German speakers say “four and twenty” = “vierundzwanzig”. When they are written out, each number is one continuous word - i.e. “achtundsiebzig”.
Examples:
45 -> 5 und 40 (fünfundvierzig)
99 -> 9 und 90 (neunundneunzig)
27 -> 7 und 20 (siebenundzwanzig)
30 (dreißig), 40 (vierzig), 50 (fünfzig), 60 (sechzig), 70 (siebzig), 80 (achtzig), 90 (neunzig), 100 (hundert).
Forming those numbers is quite easy. Simply take the first single number e.g. VIER and add the suffix “-zig”. The only exceptions are DREIßIG and SiebZIG, so don’t say dreizig or siebenzig.
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