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.
This is not a typo. The majority of Spanish-speaking countries do the opposite of English-speaking countries when it comes to decimal points and grouping thousands: commas are used for decimal points and periods are used to separate the groups of zeros.
The number " While we use cardinal numbers to count things, we use "ordinal numbers" to put things in order such as the order in which runners finish a race.
Diana Con Webber is a Teacher in Arizona. This article has been viewed 23, times. For the most part, writing numbers in Spanish is no different than writing them in English. Spanish uses the same numerals as are used in English. However, there are some quirks to writing numbers in Spanish that don't exist in English, particularly when it comes to writing larger numbers or using numbers as adjectives.
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Memorize unique names of numbers. The first 15 numbers in Spanish have unique names that you'll need to learn. After those, the numbers come in combinations, so you can form more numbers by combining the names of the ones you already know. The words for the first 15 numbers in Spanish are uno 1 , dos 2 , tres 3 , cuatro 4 , cinco 5 , seis 6 , siete 7 , ocho 8 , nueve 9 , diez 10 , once 11 , doce 12 , trece 13 , catorce 14 , and quince Learn to count by tens.
The tens in Spanish are unique words as well. Recognize the pattern that most of these are more or less a combination of the word for the first digit and the suffix -enta. For example, cuarenta is a combination of cuatro 4 and the suffix -enta , with the "t" removed as well. To write numbers through 99, all you need are the tens and the second digit, separated by the word y. For example, 34 would be "treinta y cuatro," which literally means "30 and 4.
Use -cientos for hundreds. To create the full word for a number in the hundreds, you simply add the word for the other digits to ciento or cientos. For example, two hundred is doscientos. The only exception is the word for the number , which is quinientos. Connect tens and ones with the word "y" and. When writing out large numbers in Spanish, you need an y between the second and third digit of each grouping of three digits.
This is the case regardless of how many groupings there are. For example, if you wanted to write the number "," in Spanish you would write the words as "novecientos noventa y nueve mil novecientos noventa y nueve. Learn the word "mil. Write the words just as you would in English, by writing first the number of millions there are, and then writing the rest of the numbers.
Keep in mind that a billion in Spanish is not the same quantity as in English. In Spanish, extremely big numbers in the billions and trillions are counted differently than they are in English. If you fail to recognize this, you could make a significant error when writing numbers in Spanish.
Shorten the words ciento , uno , and veintiuno. In Spanish, if you're speaking of exactly , you must shorten ciento to cien. For example, if you were talking about one dog, you would write "un perro. For example, if you were writing about one ball, you would write "una pelota. Use decimal points and commas correctly in numerals. One of the biggest differences between written numbers in Spanish and written numbers in English is the use of decimal points and commas.
For example, you would write "," as " Decimals, on the other hand, are written using a comma. For example, if you wanted to write pi in Spanish, you would write "3, Separate thousands with a white space. While decimals are still acceptable to use when separating thousands as you write numbers in Spanish, it also is acceptable to simply use a space.
This method has become more common as a way to separate thousands because it keeps the decimal point from being confused with the comma. Make number words agree with the things they describe. If a number word describes a feminine noun, you should write it so that it ends in -a rather than -o. Unless you're referring to exactly one thing, the noun also must be pluralized.
For example, on an invoice or spreadsheet, you would pluralize the noun even if the quantity listed was "1,00" expressed in English as 1. Use cardinal numbers with dates.
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