Modern Spanish Grammar: A Practical Guide

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noventa 90
cien, ciento 100
ciento un(o)/-a 101
ciento treinta y cinco 135
doscientos/-as 200
trescientos/-as 300
cuatrocientos/-as 400
quinientos/-as 500
seiscientos/-as 600
setecientos/-as 700
ochocientos/-as 800
novecientos/-as 900
mil 1.000
mil un(o)/-a 1.001
mil quinientos/-as treinta y seis 1.536
dos mil 2.000
un millón (de) 1.000.000
dos millones (de) 2.000.000

NOTE In numbers, Spanish practice is to use a full stop to mark off thousands where English uses a
comma, e.g. 1.987.656 habitantes (un millón novecientos ochenta y siete mil
seiscientos cincuenta y seis habitantes‘1,987,656 inhabitants’), and a comma as the
decimal point where English uses a full stop, e.g. 97,4 grados (noventa y siete coma
cuatro grados‘ninety-seven point four degrees’).

(a) Forms involving un(o)/-a and cientos/-as agree in gender with a following noun.
Un(o) shortens in the same way as when it is an indefinite article (see 4.4).

doscientas cincuenta liras‘two hundred and fifty liras’
veintiuna libras‘twenty-one pounds’
cincuenta y un libros‘fifty-one books’

(b)Ciento is shortened to cien immediately before a noun; cien is the form also often
used in isolation:

cien páginas‘a hundred pages’
el número cien(to) ‘the number one hundred’
veinte por ciento‘twenty per cent’

7.2 Ordinal numbers


primer(o)/-a (see 5.1) 1st
segundo/-a 2nd
tercer(o)/-a (see 5.1) 3rd
cuarto/-a 4th
quinto/-a 5th
sexto/-a 6th
séptimo/-a 7th

Ordinal numbers 7.2

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