77 in French
soixante-dix-sept
Updated May 2026
Sixty + ten + seven
NUMERAL
77
FRENCH
soixante-dix-sept
IPA
/swa.sɑ̃t.dis.sɛt/
Breakdown
60 + 17 = 77 (60 + 10 + 7)
Regional variants
FR France
soixante-dix-sept
BE Belgium
septante-sept
CH Switzerland
septante-sept
Real sentence examples
“La Nationale 7 traverse la France du Nord au Sud.”
“Il y a soixante-dix-sept volumes dans la collection.”
Pronunciation and morphology notes
Built as soixante + dix-sept. Multi-segment compounds in the 70-99 range break down into a "sixty" or "four-twenty" base plus a teen value. Pronunciation hint: each segment retains its own stress.
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