Periods and commas are reversed in Spanish numbers. Here are some more free Spanish lessons to boost your Spanish:. Numbers in Spanish This free audio lesson is all about numbers in Spanish. Resources for further reading: Perfect your Spanish pronunciation The top ten hacks to effectively learn Spanish How to pronounce numbers in Spanish Here are some of the first 10 Spanish numbers to get you started. Por ejemplo for example :.
Edward is thirty-one years old. I need twenty-one more invitations. Spanish Numbers from 36 to A response to "How many"? For example, How many oranges are there? There are 10 oranges. Por ejemplo:. Quiero unos pantalones. Spanish Numbers from Be careful, some of these numbers can be tricky. For example, Hay miles de peces en el mar. Gender of Spanish numbers Not only will you continue to change the gender of numbers ending in 1 when used as a quantity, you will also change the gender of numbers ending in — tos i.
El rancho tiene cuatrocientas vacas. The ranch has four hundred cows. There are two hundred girls in the school. We manage six hundred clients in my company. Reverse Punctuation: How to Write Large Spanish Numbers If you are in Spain and about to write down a number for some Spanish friends, you need to be careful with your punctuation! Here are some more free Spanish lessons to boost your Spanish: Learn the song and the different ways to say Happy Birthday in Spanish with this lesson.
Get to know your house in Spanish! The shorter, combined word is preferred nowadays. After that the numbers come in combinations. You are literally saying "ten and six," "ten and seven," "ten and eight," etc. Veinte means "twenty" and from that point on the pattern is very similar to sixteen through nineteen; you are literally saying "twenty and one," "twenty and two," etc. Note: Once again it is also preferable to condense these numbers down to one word by replacing the trailing "-e" and the "y" with an "i.
All of the numbers in the forties, fifties, sixties, seventies, eighties, and nineties work the same way as in the thirties:. Technically ciento means "one hundred" in Spanish, but its shortened form, cien , is preferred when there are exactly of something:. You may have noticed there is no longer any y. If there is nothing in the 10's place, we don't use "y. And we don't un mil ; it's simply mil :. Note: In compound numbers, Use ciento if the number that follows is smaller than Use cien if the number that follows is larger than Note: This is not actually so much of a difference in languages as it is a difference in ways of counting very large numbers.
Historically there is some disagreement even between English-speaking countries as to what exactly "billion" represents. Bonus: see Long and short scales.
Now things get a little weird. Adding three zeros to a million in English gets us to a billion. This throws the rest of the chart out of synch with what we might expect as well:.
Still have questions about numbers? Try out the Spanish Number Translator. If you're simply counting numbers like in "Hide and Seek" while your friends are hiding the list above is accurate. However, much of the time when we use a number we follow it up with a noun, e. When we do this we're actually using the number as an adjective and some interesting things need to happen. Ciento is also shortened to cien when and only when we're dealing with exactly of something.
For example:. Secondly, as with other adjectives, we need to make our numbers agree in gender with the nouns that they modify. However, this only happens with numbers ending in " -uno " and words ending in " -ientos " all of the "hundreds" words from to Every part of a number that can agree with the gender of the noun should agree.
For example , tables would be written out as " seiscient a s cincuenta y cuatro mil trescient a s veintiun a mesas. You may have noticed the strange looking decimal points in the right hand column above.
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