Spanish Steps - At a market - Big numbers

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Big numbers

The hundreds

 

When you've learnt cien, 100, the rest of the big numbers follow in a fairly regular pattern.

 

100 cien

200 doscientos
300 trescientos
400 cuatrocientos
500 quinientos - this is a bit of a tricky one
600 seiscientos
700 setecientos - a slight change: you drop the i from siete
800 ochocientos
900 novecientos - another slight change: nueve becomes nove

 

More than one hundred:

 

Numbers start with ciento:

 

101 ciento uno
102 ciento dos, etc.
So 123 is ciento veintitrés; and 190 is ciento noventa

 

Higher numbers:

 

201 doscientos uno
305 trescientos cinco
520 quinientos veinte, etc.

 

When the things you are counting are feminine, there is a feminine form:


Doscientas botellas Two hundred bottles

 

Thousands are even easier:

 

1.000 mil
2.000 dos mil
3.000 tres mil
100.000 cien mil

 

Millions are similar to English:

 

1.000.000 un millón
5.000.000 cinco millones

 

Note, however, that the dot, not the comma, is used to separate the thousands.