{"id":926,"date":"2012-01-07T09:15:02","date_gmt":"2012-01-07T09:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.school-e.co.uk\/blog\/?p=926"},"modified":"2020-05-31T17:56:47","modified_gmt":"2020-05-31T16:56:47","slug":"spanish-numerals-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.school-e.co.uk\/blog\/spanish-numerals-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Spanish Numerals-Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>In Spanish, hundreds agree in gender with a following noun:<\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Doscientas mujeres (two hundred women)<\/p>\n<p>Docientos hombres (two hundred men)<\/p>\n<p>Thousands:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>1000 mil.<\/p>\n<p>2000 dos mil.<\/p>\n<p>3000 tres mil.<\/p>\n<p>10.000 diez mil.<\/p>\n<p>100.000 cien mil.<\/p>\n<p>500.000 quinientos mil.<\/p>\n<p>159.748 ciento cincuenta y nueve mil setecientos cuarenta y ocho.<\/p>\n<p>1.000.000 un mill\u00f3n.<\/p>\n<p>1.500.000 un mill\u00f3n quinientos mil.<\/p>\n<p>25.667.477 veinticinco millones seiscientos sesenta y siete mil cuatrocientos setenta y siete.<\/p>\n<p>The word -mil- is invariable when plural thousands are being expressed. But can appear in the plural in the expression -miles de &#8211; (thousand of).<\/p>\n<p>Unlike in English, -mil- is not preceded by an article. For instance:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Tengo mil dolares (I have a thousand dollars)<\/p>\n<p>To refer to two million or more, Spanish uses the plural of -miles de millones-.<\/p>\n<h2>Punctuation of numbers in Spanish<\/h2>\n<p>Note when writing numbers in Spanish, a comma is used where a full stop appears in English and vice versa.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>3.465 tres mil cuatro cientos sesenta y cinco (three thousand four hundred and sixty five)<\/p>\n<p>3,465 tres coma cuatro cientos sesenta y cinco (three point four six five)<\/p>\n<p>Saying dates and telephone numbers<\/p>\n<h3>The full stop is not used when writing years even if we are talking about thousands. In Spanish, telephone number are said in tens whenever possible. For instance.<\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>91 47 34 28\u00a0 (noventa y uno cuarenta y siete, treinta y cuatro veintiocho)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>Ordinal numbers<\/h4>\n<p>As we said before, ordinal numbers are those used to indicate the position in series or successions.<\/p>\n<p>Primero (first)<\/p>\n<p>Segundo (second)<\/p>\n<p>Tercero (third)<\/p>\n<p>Cuarto (fourth)<\/p>\n<p>Quinto (fifth)<\/p>\n<p>Sexto (sixth)<\/p>\n<p>S\u00e9ptimo (seventh)<\/p>\n<p>Octavo (eighth)<\/p>\n<p>Noveno (ninth)<\/p>\n<p>D\u00e9cimo (tenth)<\/p>\n<p>Rules:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Ordinal numbers agree in gender and number with the noun they accompany:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>El primero de la clase (the first of the class)<\/p>\n<p>La primera mujer presidenta (The first woman president)<\/p>\n<p>Las segundas partes nunca son buenas (The second parts are never good)<\/p>\n<p>En los d\u00e9cimos pisos hace calor (In the tenth floors is always hot)<\/p>\n<p>Another two examples that drops in front of a noun:<\/p>\n<p>El primer libro del autor (The first book of the author)<\/p>\n<p>Vivo en el tercer piso (I live in the third floor)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Uses<\/h2>\n<p>Ordinal numbers are used in Spanish specially in the following cases.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Numbers form 1 to 9<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Naming kings, queens and popes<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; When something is with Roman numbers<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; To name centuries<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We hope we helped with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.school-e.co.uk\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Spanish<\/a> Numerals. (Spanish info)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Spanish, hundreds agree in gender with a following noun: &nbsp; Doscientas mujeres (two hundred women) Docientos hombres (two hundred men) Thousands: &nbsp; 1000 mil. 2000 dos mil. 3000 tres mil. 10.000 diez mil. 100.000 cien mil. 500.000 quinientos mil. 159.748 ciento cincuenta y nueve mil setecientos cuarenta y ocho. 1.000.000 un mill\u00f3n. 1.500.000 un &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.school-e.co.uk\/blog\/spanish-numerals-part-2\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Spanish Numerals-Part 2<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[749,791,792,7],"tags":[433,431,434,430,14,619,44,429,17,432,43],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.school-e.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.school-e.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.school-e.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.school-e.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.school-e.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=926"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/www.school-e.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4708,"href":"https:\/\/www.school-e.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926\/revisions\/4708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.school-e.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.school-e.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.school-e.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}