Larger Numbers in Spanish

Larger Numbers in Spanish

100-1000

Quick Review: 11-20

• 11-15 each have one form: once, doce, trece, catorce and quince.

• Technically, 16-19 can be written as the three words "ten and six, ten and seven, ten and eight, etc."

• This looks like diez y seis, diez y siete, diez y ocho, etc.

• However, we will not use three words to write these numbers in class. It is much more common to write 16-19 as a one-word contraction using the prefix dieci. When you do this, 16 gets an accent. This is how we will write them in class.

• They look like this: dieciséis, diecisiete, dieciocho and diecinueve.

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Multiple Choice

Which of these has an accent in Spanish?

• 15

• 16

• 17

• 18

Quick Review: The 20's and Beyond

• 21-29 can also be written as three words (veinte y uno) or as a one-word contraction. We will be writing them as a one-word contraction in this class.

• When written as a contraction, they use the prefix veinti and each number that ends in an S gets an accent.

• So, they look like this: veintiuno, veintidós, veintitrés, veinticuatro, veinticinco, veintiséis, veintisiete, veintiocho and veintinueve.

• The 30's, 40's, 50's, 60's, 70's, 80's and 90's do NOT make contractions when they have a number in the ones column. They are written as three words.

• So, 30 is treinta and 37 is treinta y siete. 80 is ochenta and 84 is ochenta y cuatro.

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Multiple Select

Check every number that MUST be written as three words.

• 25

• 44

• 50

• 86

• 71

One Hundred (100)

• The number 100 in Spanish is cien.

• Once you get to 101, the cien changes to ciento and you then add the next number.

• So, 101 is ciento uno. 115 is ciento quince.

• Do NOT put an "and" (y) between the ciento and the number that comes after it. You DO still keep the and (y) when using the numbers 31-99 that need one.

• So, 108 is ciento ocho. 116 is ciento dieciséis. 140 is ciento cuarenta. 152 is ciento cincuenta y dos.

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Beyond 100

• Most of the hundreds from 200-900 are simply a compund word using the correct digit plus the plural word for "hunded" which is cientos.

• This is true for the following numbers: 200 (doscientos), 300 (trescientos), 400 (cuatrocientos), 600 (seiscientos), and 800 (ochocientos).

• The following numbers have irregular forms: 500 (quinientos), 700 (setecientos) and 900 (novecientos).

• Again, do NOT put an "and" (y) directly after these numbers. 531 is quinientos treinta y uno. 208 is doscientos ocho.

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Thousands

• 1,000 in Spanish is mil.

• Do NOT put a "one" (un / uno) in front of mil. One thousand is just mil.

• For more than one thousand, you just write the correct number before mil. So...

• 4,000 is cuatro mil.

• 47,000 is cuarenta y siete mil.

• 862, 512 is ochocientos sesenta y dos mil quinientos dos.

• Again, do NOT put an "and" (y) directly after mil.

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Punctuation

• When usuing numerals in many Spanish speaking countries, the use of the point (.) and the comma (,) are revresed from their usages in English.

• In these countries, five thousand dollars would be written as $5.000 and ten dollars and fifty cents would be written as $10,50.

Multiple Choice

Pick the larger number, using numeral punctuation the way they do in much of the Spanish-speaking world, as described in the previous slide.

• 200,751

• 200.751