Spanish Vocabulary: numbers
noventa y ocho
98
noventa y nueve
99
cien
100
ciento uno
101 Note how the pattern changes slightly: we’re not using y anymore. That’s just to separate the tens place from the ones place. So “one hundred one,” not “one hundred and one.”
ciento dos
102
ciento diez
110
ciento veinte
120
ciento treinta y cuatro
134 (the y is separating the tens place from the ones place)
doscientos
200
trescientos
300
cuatrocientos
400
quinientos
500
seiscientos
600
setecientos
700
ochocientos
800
novecientos
900
mil
1000 (Note: Not “un mil,” just “mil“)
mil quinientos
1500
dos mil
2000
cuatro mil
4000
cien mil
100.000
un millón
1.000.000
once millones
11.000.000
(en) mil novecientos cincuenta
(in) 1950
you must use mil to talk about years (this is different from the English way of splitting years into two-digit clusters)
(en) mil ochocientos veintiuno
(in) 1821
you must use mil to talk about years (this is different from the English way of splitting years into two-digit clusters)
dos mil diecinueve
2019
you must use mil to talk about years (this is different from the English way of splitting years into two-digit clusters)
ciento veintitrés mil cuatrocientos cincuenta y seis dólares con setenta y ocho centavos
$123.456,78
Most Spanish-speaking countries use a comma to mark the decimal point, and a period or dot to mark the thousands position in long numbers. This is beginning to change somewhat as the English way of punctuating numbers is spreading via the Internet. So you’ll need to be careful not to mistake decimals for thousands!
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