Learn how to say all the numbers in Spanish

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Learn all the numbers in Spanish

The first thing that you learn in a language are the numbers, but sometimes we only learn the first ten or twenty and we have difficulties when we want to say the highest numbers. Saying numbers in Spanish is easier than you think if you keep reading you’ll see how easy it is to learn to say all the numbers in Spanish.

To facilitate the learning we will divide them into several parts:

Numbers from 1 to 29

The numbers from 1 to 29 are the following:

1 – Uno

2 – Dos

3 – Tres

4 – Cuatro

5 – Cinco

6 – Seis

7 – Siete

8 – Ocho

9 – Nueve

10 – Diez

11 – Once

12 – Doce

13 – Trece

14 – Catorce

15 – Quince

16 – Dieciséis

17 – Diecisiete

18 – Dieciocho

19 – Diecinueve

20 – Veinte

21 – Veintiuno

22 – Veintidós

23 – Veintitrés

24 – Veinticuatro

25 – Veinticinco

26 – Veintiséis

27 – Veintisiete

28 – Veintiocho

29 – Veintinueve

These numbers are the most used and they are the first numbers that you start learning Spanish. Let’s go to see the following ones.

Numbers from 30 to 99

40 – Cuarenta

50 – Cincuenta

60 – Sesenta

70 – Setenta

80 – Ochenta

90 – Noventa

The numbers from 30 to 99 are very easy, you only have to learn the tens and agree the rest of the numbers. They work like this:

tens (30,40,50,60,70,80,90) + y + numbers from 1 to 9

Let’s go to see and example:

45 = 40 + y + 5 / Cuarenta y cinco

91 = 90 + y +1 / Noventa y uno

Numbers from 100 to 999

First of all, look at how the following numbers are formed:

100 – Cien /ciento

200 – doscientos

300 – trescientos

400 – cuatrocientos

500 – seiscientos

600 – seiscientos

700 – setecientos

800 – ochocientos

900 – novecientos

To form numbers over 100 to 999 just follow the rule of numbers 30 to 99:

120 = 100 + 20 / ciento veinte

205 = 200 + 5 / doscientos cinco

235 = 200 + 30 + y + 5 / doscientos treinta y cinco

999 = 900 + 90 + y + 9 novecientos noventa y cinco

Exception: When you see 100, we must say cien, not ciento.

Numbers from 1.000 to the infinitive

As you have seen before, first, you must learn these numbers and you will see how the sequence is very easy to learn:

1.000 – Mil

2.000 – Dos mil

3.000 – Tres mil

10.000 – Diez mil

20.000 – Veinte mil

30.000 – Treinta mil

300.000 – Trescientos mil

1.000.000 – Un millón

2.000.000 – Dos millones

50.000.000 – Cincuenta millones

600.000.000 – Seiscientos millones

Now that you have seen how they are formed, I’m sure you already know how numbers greater than 1,000 are said, just in case we’re going to give you some examples:

1.528 = 1.000 + 500 + 28 / mil quinientos veintiocho

1.999 =1.000 + 900 + 90 + y +9 / mil novecientos noventa y nueve

2.003 = 2.000 + 3 / dos mil tres

9.058 = 9.000 + 50 + y + 5 / nueve mil cincuenta y ocho

10.569 = 10.000 + 500 + 60 + y + 9 / diez mil quinientos sesenta y nueve

63.519 = 63.000 (63 mil) + 500 + 19 / sesenta y tres mil quinientos diecinueve

125.898 = 125.000 (125 mil) + 800 + 90 + y + 8 / ciento veinticinco mil ochocientos noventa y nueve

600.089 = 600.000 (600 mil) + 80 + y + 9 / seiscientos mil ochenta y nueve

5.638.058 = 5.000.000 + 638.000 + 50 + y + 8 / cinco millones seiscientos treinta y ocho mil cincuenta y ocho

Curiosities:

As a curiosity, we have to know that the European numerical system (including the Spanish language) is different from the Anglo-Saxon one as you can see:

  Learn the cardinal and ordinal Spanish Numbers

Spanish: One billion 1,000,000,000,000.
Anglo-Saxon countries: One billion = 1,000,000,000

The way to separate thousands and decimals is also different, in the Hispanic American countries we use the dot (.) To separate the thousands and the comma (,) to separate the decimals:

3.537,52 = tres mil quinientos treinta y siete con cincuenta y dos.

If, besides this numbers, you want to learn the ordinal numbers (1º, 2º …) check this entry.

Now that you know how all the numbers are formed in Spanish, you will never have any more trouble saying them again.

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2018-12-19T21:46:22+00:00

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