How to Say ‘About seventy-five kilos.’ in German
Etwa fünfundsiebzig Kilo.
ET-vah FUENF-oont-zeeb-tsikh KEE-loh
[ET-vah FUENF-oont-zeeb-tsikh KEE-loh]
💬 Usage Tip: German numbers put the ones before the tens, joined by und: fünfundsiebzig is literally "five-and-seventy". Same with zweiundachtzig "eighty-two".
Phrase Breakdown
Etwa
[ET-vah]
about; approximately
Used before a number to show it is an estimate.
Etwa vierzig Quadratmeter hat der ganze Bereich.
The whole area is about forty square meters.
fünfundsiebzig
[FUENF-oont-zeeb-tsikh]
seventy-five
The number 75; German says 'five-and-seventy'.
Ich wiege fünfundsiebzig Kilo.
I weigh seventy-five kilos.
Kilo
[KEE-loh]
kilo(s)
Short for kilogram, the unit for body weight.
Das Baby wiegt drei Kilo.
The baby weighs three kilos.
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