Always insisting on how you must pronounce the numbers in English, so that it's clear what number it is. In the chart above you can see underlined which are the stressed syllables in each of them. Most numbers between 0-10 are monosyllables. Numbers between 13-19 are all stressed on their last syllable -teen /ti:n/. The different numbers that refer to each set of tens, ending in -ty /ti/ always have the stressed syllable on the first one, never on the last.
So,
thirteen - thirty
fourteen - forty
fifteen - fifty
sixteen - sixty
seventeen - seventy
eighteen - eighty
nineteen - ninety
(Stressed syllables are darker black)
This is the first post of a series of them devoted to numbers and expressing them.
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