The “u” in “nueve” becomes “o”: “noventa”, “novecientos”. Cardinal Numbers in Spanish 1) From 1 to 15, the numbers dont follow any pattern, which means you need to memorize them (sorry, no shortcuts). Siete will tend to drop the “i”: “setenta”, “setecientos” Think of the “fives” in pairs: “cinco” and “cincuenta”, “quince” and “quinientos”. The structure will be almost the same for the next numbers until 999, you only have to learn the multiples of 100 and add the rest.ĭo you notice a pattern? Remember that the numbers that come from 5 (cinco), 7 (siete), and 9 (nueve) tend to have small changes in the root when they form larger numbers. Remember that from 100 to 130 it’s two words: we never say “ciento y uno”, which is incorrect. Choose your own way!įor numbers from 100 to 199 use “ciento” + the correspondent digit: Knowing etymologies has been useful to some of our students at Fluenz Immersion, while others are more sound or music oriented. Linking ideas and sounds is the key to incorporating words organically to your vocabulary. But there are other words in English that come from the Latin root “centum” (a hundred), such as cent, century, centigrade, centipede or centimeter, which literally means “one hundredth part of a meter”. The words “hundred” and “cien” couldn’t be any more different, since they come from different families of languages and they don’t share an etymology. Notice that there are two slight spelling changes: “z” becomes “c” and “y” becomes “i”, but the pronunciation is the same. “Dieciséis” is a reduced form of “diez” + “y”* + “seis”, in English: “ten and six” (it is the same origin as “sixteen” = six + ten). What happens after fifteen? Counting from 16 to 30 16Īll numbers in Spanish from 16 to 29 have one thing in common: they combine three words in one.
SPANISH NUMBERS COUNTING HOW TO
If you haven’t already learned how to count from 1 to 100 in Spanish, visit our post Numbers in Spanish: learn to count from 1 to 100. The powerful thing about Spanish numbers is that with a few easy rules you can easily put together every number until 999 and then 1000.
You probably know how count to ten in Spanish, which means you are more than halfway to everything you need to be able to count from 100 to 1000.
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