You may not have realized before that numbers can act as adjectives.
Say numbers in spanish how to#
Now that you know how to count all the stars in the sky in Spanish, let’s look at some practical applications and how to use numbers in daily life. So what does billón mean? Un billón is a trillion! The word for billion is actually mil millones in Spanish – a thousand millions. 👉Watch out! Billón is a common false friend in Spanish, meaning it looks like an English word but it doesn’t mean what it looks like. For two million, three million, and so on, be sure to pluralize it and say millones as in cinco millones. The word for million in Spanish is a cognate, so it looks and sounds like the English word. Tres cientos / treinta y dos mil / nove cientos / cuarenta y tres.Three hundred / thirty two thousand / nine hundred / forty three.Ocho cientos / veinte y siete mil / dos cientos / cuarenta y nueve.Eight hundred / twenty seven thousand / two hundred / forty nine.Three thousand / five hundred / ninety two.Here are some more examples with corresponding colors that will visually explain how the numbers are put together. 👉 Remember though, Spanish uses a decimal point instead of a comma, and vice versa.
To say numbers from 2,000 all the way to 999,000, say the number before the comma, then the word mil, then the rest of the number. When you look at each piece and compare it to English, it’s the same format! Anything from 1000 to 1999 will start with mil and end with the remaining part of the number.įor example,1421 is mil cuatrocientos veinte y uno. The word for one thousand in Spanish is mil. Now that you know how to count up to 999 and know the numbers pattern, counting in the thousands will be intuitive. There are a few exceptions, so here is a chart with all of the hundreds listed. then usually you can put the number dos or tres in front of the word for hundreds. If you want to say two hundred, three hundred, etc. Here are some examples with helpful colors to illustrate. To count past 100, it is very similar if not the same as English. That means a simple purchase will likely be over 100 pesos! Hundreds This is because one US dollar is equivalent to about 21 Mexican pesos, 755 Chilean pesos, or 3,815 Colombian pesos as of writing this article. However, if you are going to a Latin American country and want to buy something, learning higher numbers could come in handy. You might think that if you’re just travelling for a short while, there’s no need to learn to count past 100. You will see examples of this in the next section, so don’t stress if you don’t get it yet! Spanish Numbers: What happens beyond 100 Basically, 100 by itself is cien, and when you count past 100 people use ciento instead. The word for 100 has two words in Spanish cien and ciento. Over time, the components diez y seis just got squished together to form one word, and this was applied to the numbers 16 to 29 (sometimes languages like Spanish like to squish words together to make them look more like they sound). See the pattern? This means once you have mastered the Spanish number 1-10, and twenty, thirty, forty, fifty, sixty, seventy, eighty, and ninety, you can say any number all the way up to 99! Here is a chart with all of the 2 digit numbers ending with zero.įor numbers 16 to 29, you will often see a “modern” version written out as one word instead of three, as seen in dieciseis instead of diez y seis for sixteen, and veintiocho instead of veinte y ocho for twenty eight.
The numbers 0-100 are the building blocks to all larger numbers and are used to express common things like a person’s age, the time, the date, and how many beers you want. How to count in Spanish: Spanish Numbers 1-100
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