![]() ![]() If the noun is masculine then the form "un" is used. "Un amigo" can mean "a friend" or "one friend" depending on the context. This is because the word for "a" and "one" are the same in Spanish. ![]() ¿Un, uno o una? - The number "one" in Spanish is the only number that has to agree with the noun it refers to. For example:ģ8 - treinta y ocho - literally "thirty and eight".Ģ49 - doscientos cuarenta y nueve -literally "two hundreds forty and nine".ġ567 - mil quinientos sesenta y siete - literally "thousand five hundred sixty and seven".Īlthough the numbers in the 20s are pronounced similarly to the higher numbers, they are written slightly differently - "veintiuno, veintidos" (all one word) but "treinta y uno, treinta y dos, cuarenta y uno, cuarenta y dos", etc. Numbers are built up from the units listed above the same way that they are in English. Note also that the numbers from 200 to 900 have to agree with the noun they refer to: "ochocientos libros" "ochocientas niñas" Note that 500 is very irregular and 700 and 900 are slightly irregular. Your browser does not support the audio element. Then it is fairly easy to work out the larger numbers in Spanish. You need to learn the numbers 1 - 15 which are unique, along with the multiples of 10. Will you guess how to write a number in full? Enter a number and try to write it down in your head, or maybe on a piece of paper, before displaying the result.Learning the numbers in Spanish is not very complicated. Let’s move now to the practice of the numbering rules in Spanish. In Puerto Rico, un billón is 10 9 (equivalent to the US billion). Thus, we have millón (10 6, million), mil millones (10 9, billion), billón (10 12, trillion), mil billones (10 15, quadrillion), trillón (10 18, quintillion), mil trillones (10 21, sextillion)… The only (local) exception to this rule is the Spanish spoken in Puerto Rico where the short scale is in use. The Spanish language uses the long scale system in which we alternate between a scale word and its thousand.Thousands are formed by stating the multiplier digit before it, except for one thousand itself: mil, dos mil, tres mil, cuatro mil, cinco mil … Tens and units are linked with y (and), as in treinta y cinco. ![]() The same applies for the hundreds where one word is created by removing the space between the multiplier and the hundred word: cien (plural cientos), doscientos, trescientos, cuatrocientos, quinientos, seiscientos, setecientos, ochocientos, and novecientos.The tens have specific names based on their multiplier digit root except for ten and twenty: diez, veinte, treinta, cuarenta, cincuenta, sesenta, setenta, ochenta, and noventa.The same applies up to twenty-nine: diecisiete, dieciocho … veintinueve. Diez y seis is phonetically shortened with an apocope as dieciséis. ![]() named after the ten (or the twenty) and the digit. Sixteen to twenty-nine are regular numbers, i.e. Digits and numbers from zero to fifteen are specific words, namely cero, uno (which is apocoped in un before a vowel, and has a feminine form: una), dos, tres, cuatro, cinco, seis, siete, ocho, nueve, diez, once, doce, trece, catorce, quince.Now that you’ve had a gist of the most useful numbers, let’s move to the writing rules for the tens, the compound numbers, and why not the hundreds, the thousands and beyond (if possible). ![]()
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