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0z\"\u002F>",true,{"id":36,"title":37,"author":38,"authorsTake":39,"body":40,"category":774,"cefrLevel":775,"date":776,"description":777,"extension":778,"faqs":779,"heroImage":775,"intro":775,"language":775,"lastUpdated":775,"meta":792,"navigation":34,"path":793,"seo":794,"socialDescription":775,"stem":795,"tags":796,"tldr":801,"verbSlugs":775,"__hash__":802},"resources\u002Fresources\u002Fspanish\u002Fnumbers-in-spanish.md","Numbers in Spanish: 1 to 100 and the Patterns That Get You to Any Number","Michael McGettrick","The first numbers I had to use in Madrid were not the textbook ones. They were the prices the woman at the frutería off Calle Fuencarral rattled off when I asked for half a kilo of tomatoes (dos con cuarenta, two euros forty), the bus number for the night route home from Malasaña (the N20, en-veinte, said as a single chunk), and the flat number my landlord told me to buzz when I arrived (cuarto izquierda, segundo C, the building was a maze). What I had drilled in evening classes in the UK was uno through diez in slow chorus, then a long gap, then twenty through ninety in another slow chorus. Useless for a market.\n\nThe thing the textbook order gets wrong is the assumption that you need to master 1-10 before you touch 21-99. You do not. The 21-99 pattern is the single most productive block in the Spanish number system because it is what gets quoted at you at the till, the bus stop, the metro turnstile, the kiosk. The 1-10 building blocks slot into it for free. If you have an hour to put into Spanish numbers before a trip, spend forty minutes on the y rule (treinta y siete, cuarenta y dos, sesenta y ocho) and ten on cien vs ciento, not the other way round.\n\nThe hill I will stand on: drilling numbers in isolation, the way every app does it (here is veintitrés, now here is sesenta y uno, now here is cuatrocientos), trains the wrong recognition pattern. The numbers you actually need to understand at speed come glued to nouns and units (treinta y cinco euros, dos kilos, calle Atocha número cuarenta y siete, son las tres y media). Drill them in context or you will freeze the first time a Madrid taxi driver says doce con ochenta and the meter is on doce con ochenta and you cannot decode either fast enough.\n",{"type":41,"value":42,"toc":759},"minimark",[43,48,57,62,204,210,214,225,349,355,359,362,432,443,450,453,457,476,479,483,486,570,579,582,586,601,604,608,625,628,632,635,644,647,651,662,679,683,689,695,701,719,723],[44,45,47],"h1",{"id":46},"numbers-in-spanish","Numbers in Spanish",[49,50,51,52,56],"p",{},"The default starting block is ",[53,54,55],"strong",{},"uno, dos, tres, cuatro, cinco, seis, siete, ocho, nueve, diez",". From there the system is mostly regular, with irregulars in the teens (once, doce, trece, catorce, quince), a contracted block at 16-19 and 21-29 (dieciséis, veintidós), a switch to three-word numbers at 31 (treinta y uno), and two irregular hundreds the textbooks bury (quinientos, setecientos). This article covers cero to un millón, the y rule, the cien vs ciento split, gender agreement, ordinals, and the regional pronunciation split.",[58,59,61],"h2",{"id":60},"_0-to-10","0 to 10",[63,64,65,81],"table",{},[66,67,68],"thead",{},[69,70,71,75,78],"tr",{},[72,73,74],"th",{},"Number",[72,76,77],{},"Spanish",[72,79,80],{},"Pronunciation",[82,83,84,96,107,117,127,138,149,160,171,182,193],"tbody",{},[69,85,86,90,93],{},[87,88,89],"td",{},"0",[87,91,92],{},"cero",[87,94,95],{},"THE-ro \u002F SE-ro",[69,97,98,101,104],{},[87,99,100],{},"1",[87,102,103],{},"uno",[87,105,106],{},"OO-no",[69,108,109,112,115],{},[87,110,111],{},"2",[87,113,114],{},"dos",[87,116,114],{},[69,118,119,122,125],{},[87,120,121],{},"3",[87,123,124],{},"tres",[87,126,124],{},[69,128,129,132,135],{},[87,130,131],{},"4",[87,133,134],{},"cuatro",[87,136,137],{},"KWA-tro",[69,139,140,143,146],{},[87,141,142],{},"5",[87,144,145],{},"cinco",[87,147,148],{},"THIN-ko \u002F SIN-ko",[69,150,151,154,157],{},[87,152,153],{},"6",[87,155,156],{},"seis",[87,158,159],{},"seys",[69,161,162,165,168],{},[87,163,164],{},"7",[87,166,167],{},"siete",[87,169,170],{},"SYE-te",[69,172,173,176,179],{},[87,174,175],{},"8",[87,177,178],{},"ocho",[87,180,181],{},"O-cho",[69,183,184,187,190],{},[87,185,186],{},"9",[87,188,189],{},"nueve",[87,191,192],{},"NWE-ve",[69,194,195,198,201],{},[87,196,197],{},"10",[87,199,200],{},"diez",[87,202,203],{},"dyeth \u002F dyes",[49,205,206,207,209],{},"Zero is ",[53,208,92],{},", not the English \"zero\" with the z sound. The c here is th in Spain and s in Latin America; the same split applies to every c-before-e-or-i and every z in the system.",[58,211,213],{"id":212},"_11-to-20","11 to 20",[49,215,216,217,220,221,224],{},"The teens split in two. ",[53,218,219],{},"Once, doce, trece, catorce, quince"," are irregular: memorise them. ",[53,222,223],{},"Dieciséis, diecisiete, dieciocho, diecinueve"," are contracted from diez y seis, diez y siete, and so on. The contraction is now mandatory in writing.",[63,226,227,237],{},[66,228,229],{},[69,230,231,233,235],{},[72,232,74],{},[72,234,77],{},[72,236,80],{},[82,238,239,250,261,272,283,294,305,316,327,338],{},[69,240,241,244,247],{},[87,242,243],{},"11",[87,245,246],{},"once",[87,248,249],{},"ON-the \u002F ON-se",[69,251,252,255,258],{},[87,253,254],{},"12",[87,256,257],{},"doce",[87,259,260],{},"DO-the \u002F DO-se",[69,262,263,266,269],{},[87,264,265],{},"13",[87,267,268],{},"trece",[87,270,271],{},"TRE-the \u002F TRE-se",[69,273,274,277,280],{},[87,275,276],{},"14",[87,278,279],{},"catorce",[87,281,282],{},"ka-TOR-the \u002F ka-TOR-se",[69,284,285,288,291],{},[87,286,287],{},"15",[87,289,290],{},"quince",[87,292,293],{},"KEEN-the \u002F KEEN-se",[69,295,296,299,302],{},[87,297,298],{},"16",[87,300,301],{},"dieciséis",[87,303,304],{},"dye-thi-SEYS \u002F dye-si-SEYS",[69,306,307,310,313],{},[87,308,309],{},"17",[87,311,312],{},"diecisiete",[87,314,315],{},"dye-thi-SYE-te",[69,317,318,321,324],{},[87,319,320],{},"18",[87,322,323],{},"dieciocho",[87,325,326],{},"dye-thi-O-cho",[69,328,329,332,335],{},[87,330,331],{},"19",[87,333,334],{},"diecinueve",[87,336,337],{},"dye-thi-NWE-ve",[69,339,340,343,346],{},[87,341,342],{},"20",[87,344,345],{},"veinte",[87,347,348],{},"BEYN-te",[49,350,351,352,354],{},"The written accent on ",[53,353,301],{}," is not optional: the contraction shifts the stress to the final syllable and the accent marks it. Same logic applies to veintidós, veintitrés and veintiséis in the next block.",[58,356,358],{"id":357},"_20-to-99-the-y-rule","20 to 99: the y rule",[49,360,361],{},"This is the most productive block in the system. The tens:",[63,363,364,376],{},[66,365,366],{},[69,367,368,370,372,374],{},[72,369,74],{},[72,371,77],{},[72,373,74],{},[72,375,77],{},[82,377,378,390,404,418],{},[69,379,380,382,384,387],{},[87,381,342],{},[87,383,345],{},[87,385,386],{},"60",[87,388,389],{},"sesenta",[69,391,392,395,398,401],{},[87,393,394],{},"30",[87,396,397],{},"treinta",[87,399,400],{},"70",[87,402,403],{},"setenta",[69,405,406,409,412,415],{},[87,407,408],{},"40",[87,410,411],{},"cuarenta",[87,413,414],{},"80",[87,416,417],{},"ochenta",[69,419,420,423,426,429],{},[87,421,422],{},"50",[87,424,425],{},"cincuenta",[87,427,428],{},"90",[87,430,431],{},"noventa",[49,433,434,435,438,439,442],{},"The 21-29 block contracts to one word: veintiuno, veintidós, veintitrés, veinticuatro, veinticinco, veintiséis, veintisiete, veintiocho, veintinueve. The accents on ",[53,436,437],{},"veintidós, veintitrés"," and ",[53,440,441],{},"veintiséis"," are mandatory.",[49,444,445,446,449],{},"From 31 onwards the contraction stops and Spanish switches to three words with ",[53,447,448],{},"y"," (and) in the middle: treinta y uno, cuarenta y dos, cincuenta y tres, sesenta y cuatro, setenta y cinco, ochenta y seis, noventa y siete, noventa y nueve. Once you have the tens and the units, every number from 31 to 99 is mechanical: tens word, y, units word. No accents because the words stay separate.",[49,451,452],{},"The cut-off between contracted (21-29) and expanded (31+) is the spelling rule that catches every learner. Textbooks rarely flag it as a single rule, but it is one: 16-19 and 21-29 contract to single words, everything else uses y.",[58,454,456],{"id":455},"_100-and-the-cien-vs-ciento-split","100 and the cien vs ciento split",[49,458,459,460,463,464,467,468,471,472,475],{},"One hundred is either ",[53,461,462],{},"cien"," or ",[53,465,466],{},"ciento",", and the choice is fixed by what comes next. ",[53,469,470],{},"Cien"," is exactly 100 standing alone, the form you use immediately before any noun (cien personas, cien euros, cien años), and the form before mil and millones (cien mil, cien millones). ",[53,473,474],{},"Ciento"," is the form for 101 to 199 (ciento uno, ciento veinte, ciento noventa y nueve).",[49,477,478],{},"So 100 euros is cien euros, 150 euros is ciento cincuenta euros, 200 euros is doscientos euros. The split is irregular and the single most reliable register tell once the rest of your Spanish has caught up.",[58,480,482],{"id":481},"_200-to-900-the-hundreds","200 to 900: the hundreds",[49,484,485],{},"The hundreds are mostly regular (units plus -cientos), but two are irregular and they are the ones learners forget.",[63,487,488,496],{},[66,489,490],{},[69,491,492,494],{},[72,493,74],{},[72,495,77],{},[82,497,498,506,514,522,530,538,546,554,562],{},[69,499,500,503],{},[87,501,502],{},"100",[87,504,505],{},"cien \u002F ciento",[69,507,508,511],{},[87,509,510],{},"200",[87,512,513],{},"doscientos",[69,515,516,519],{},[87,517,518],{},"300",[87,520,521],{},"trescientos",[69,523,524,527],{},[87,525,526],{},"400",[87,528,529],{},"cuatrocientos",[69,531,532,535],{},[87,533,534],{},"500",[87,536,537],{},"quinientos",[69,539,540,543],{},[87,541,542],{},"600",[87,544,545],{},"seiscientos",[69,547,548,551],{},[87,549,550],{},"700",[87,552,553],{},"setecientos",[69,555,556,559],{},[87,557,558],{},"800",[87,560,561],{},"ochocientos",[69,563,564,567],{},[87,565,566],{},"900",[87,568,569],{},"novecientos",[49,571,572,575,576,578],{},[53,573,574],{},"Quinientos"," (not cincocientos) and ",[53,577,553],{}," (not sietecientos) are the two irregulars. Novecientos feels irregular because the unit is nueve; the c drops the u.",[49,580,581],{},"The hundreds agree in gender: before a feminine noun the -os ending shifts to -as. Doscientas casas, trescientas personas, quinientas mujeres, setecientas páginas. Cien itself does not change (cien casas, cien libros); only the 200-900 forms shift.",[58,583,585],{"id":584},"_1000-and-beyond","1,000 and beyond",[49,587,588,589,592,593,596,597,600],{},"A thousand is ",[53,590,591],{},"mil"," with no article: not \"un mil.\" Two thousand is dos mil, ten thousand diez mil, one hundred thousand cien mil. A million takes the article: ",[53,594,595],{},"un millón",", dos millones. Above a million the noun being counted needs ",[53,598,599],{},"de",": un millón de personas, dos millones de euros. With mil no de is needed: mil personas, dos mil euros.",[49,602,603],{},"Punctuation note: Spanish uses a full stop as the thousands separator and a comma as the decimal point, the opposite of English. So 1.500 is one thousand five hundred and 3,14 is three point fourteen.",[58,605,607],{"id":606},"uno-and-gender-the-apocope","Uno and gender: the apocope",[49,609,610,613,614,617,618,621,622,624],{},[53,611,612],{},"Uno"," is the only cardinal that changes before a noun, and it does so for gender. ",[53,615,616],{},"Un"," before a masculine noun (un libro), ",[53,619,620],{},"una"," before a feminine noun (una casa), ",[53,623,103],{}," standing alone (¿cuántos quieres? uno).",[49,626,627],{},"The same shift applies in the compounds: veintiún libros (with a mandatory written accent because the apocope shifts the stress), veintiuna casas, treinta y un libros, treinta y una casas. The 21+ apocope is the most common spelling mistake in adult-learner Spanish; the textbook gives veintiuno and forgets to mention that it becomes veintiún the moment a masculine noun appears.",[58,629,631],{"id":630},"ordinals-first-to-tenth-then-mostly-cardinals","Ordinals: first to tenth, then mostly cardinals",[49,633,634],{},"Ordinals exist in Spanish but get used much less than in English. The first ten are worth learning: primero, segundo, tercero, cuarto, quinto, sexto, séptimo, octavo, noveno, décimo. Feminine forms swap the final o for a: primera, segunda, tercera, and so on.",[49,636,637,438,640,643],{},[53,638,639],{},"Primero",[53,641,642],{},"tercero"," apocopate before masculine singular nouns: el primer día, el tercer piso. The full form returns before feminine nouns and in the plural: la primera vez, los primeros días.",[49,645,646],{},"Past tenth, Spanish speakers mostly switch to cardinals. The eleventh floor is el piso once, not el undécimo piso (which exists but reads as archaic). Alfonso XIII is read Alfonso trece, not Alfonso decimotercero. Drill the first ten ordinals and use cardinals above that.",[58,648,650],{"id":649},"regional-pronunciation-the-c-and-z-question","Regional pronunciation: the c and z question",[49,652,653,654,657,658,661],{},"The headline regional difference in Spanish numbers is the pronunciation of c (before e or i) and z. In ",[53,655,656],{},"Spain"," (except the south), these are pronounced like the English unvoiced th in think, so cinco is THIN-ko, doce is DO-the, once is ON-the, quince is KEEN-the, cero is THE-ro. In ",[53,659,660],{},"Latin America"," (and in Andalusia and the Canary Islands), the same letters are pronounced as s, so cinco is SIN-ko, doce is DO-se, once is ON-se, cero is SE-ro.",[49,663,664,665,668,669,672,673,678],{},"The distinction is called ",[53,666,667],{},"distinción"," in Spain and ",[53,670,671],{},"seseo"," in Latin America. Neither is more correct. Spanish speakers from one region understand the other effortlessly. Pick the one that matches the variety you are learning. For the wider pronunciation system, see the ",[674,675,677],"a",{"href":676},"\u002Fspanish\u002Falphabet","Spanish alphabet"," page.",[58,680,682],{"id":681},"numbers-in-real-contexts","Numbers in real contexts",[49,684,685,688],{},[53,686,687],{},"Prices."," Quoted as euros, con, cents. Two euros forty is dos con cuarenta. Twelve eighty is doce con ochenta.",[49,690,691,694],{},[53,692,693],{},"Phone numbers."," Said in pairs, not digit by digit. The Madrid number 912 345 678 is read as nueve-doce, treinta y cuatro, cincuenta y seis, setenta y ocho. The hardest context for foreign learners because the pairs come fast and require instant decoding of the 21-99 block.",[49,696,697,700],{},[53,698,699],{},"Addresses."," Calle Atocha, número 47 is calle Atocha, número cuarenta y siete. Flat numbers come after: 47, 3º izquierda is cuarenta y siete, tercero izquierda. The ordinal is written with a superscript º (masculine) or ª (feminine).",[49,702,703,706,707,709,710,713,714,718],{},[53,704,705],{},"Times."," Hours plus minutes with ",[53,708,448],{}," (past) or ",[53,711,712],{},"menos"," (to): son las dos y media (half past two), son las cinco menos diez (ten to five). The hour is plural except for one o'clock: es la una, son las dos. For the price-quoting register, see ",[674,715,717],{"href":716},"\u002Fspanish\u002Fphrases\u002Frestaurant","Spanish phrases for the restaurant",".",[58,720,722],{"id":721},"cross-links","Cross-links",[724,725,726,735,740,747,754],"ul",{},[727,728,729,730,734],"li",{},"The ",[674,731,733],{"href":732},"\u002Fspanish","Spanish pillar"," covers the wider adult-learner approach to Spanish.",[727,736,729,737,739],{},[674,738,677],{"href":676}," covers the c \u002F z \u002F s pronunciation system that underlies the regional split in cinco and doce.",[727,741,729,742,746],{},[674,743,745],{"href":744},"\u002Fspanish\u002Fvocabulary-by-cefr","Spanish vocabulary by CEFR"," article covers the staged curriculum that puts cardinals 1-100 at A1 and the ordinals plus large numbers at A2.",[727,748,729,749,753],{},[674,750,752],{"href":751},"\u002Fresources\u002Fspanish\u002Fhow-to-say-good-morning-in-spanish","how to say good morning in Spanish"," article covers the time-of-day greetings that pair with the clock-time number patterns above.",[727,755,729,756,758],{},[674,757,717],{"href":716}," article covers the price-quoting register where the 21-99 block and the cien vs ciento split show up most often for travellers.",{"title":760,"searchDepth":761,"depth":761,"links":762},"",2,[763,764,765,766,767,768,769,770,771,772,773],{"id":60,"depth":761,"text":61},{"id":212,"depth":761,"text":213},{"id":357,"depth":761,"text":358},{"id":455,"depth":761,"text":456},{"id":481,"depth":761,"text":482},{"id":584,"depth":761,"text":585},{"id":606,"depth":761,"text":607},{"id":630,"depth":761,"text":631},{"id":649,"depth":761,"text":650},{"id":681,"depth":761,"text":682},{"id":721,"depth":761,"text":722},"Methodology",null,"2026-06-11T00:00:00+00:00","Numbers in Spanish from cero to un millón, with the irregulars (once, doce, quince), the contracted veintiuno pattern, the cien vs ciento split, the quinientos and setecientos irregulars, gender agreement on doscientas, and the spelling rules at 21 that the textbooks bury.","md",[780,783,786,789],{"q":781,"a":782},"Why is veintiuno one word but treinta y uno three words?","Spanish contracted the 16-19 and 21-29 ranges into single words centuries ago (dieciséis, veintidós), but never extended the contraction to 31 and above. So 21 is veintiuno, 22 is veintidós, all the way to 29, but 31 is treinta y uno, 32 is treinta y dos, 33 is treinta y tres, all three words with y in the middle. The accent on dieciséis, veintidós, veintitrés and veintiséis is mandatory in writing because the contraction shifts the stress. There is no logic to learn here, just the cut-off: contracted to 29, expanded from 31.",{"q":784,"a":785},"What is the difference between cien and ciento?","Cien is exactly 100, and is also the form you use directly before any noun: cien personas, cien euros, cien años. Ciento is the form you use for 101 to 199: ciento uno, ciento veinte, ciento noventa y nueve. The same split applies before mil and millones: cien mil (100,000), cien millones (100 million). Get this wrong and Spanish speakers will understand you fine, but it is the single most reliable foreign-learner tell in the number system, more than the irregulars and more than the gender agreement.",{"q":787,"a":788},"When do Spanish numbers agree in gender?","Uno becomes una before feminine nouns (una casa, una silla) and un before masculine nouns (un libro, un coche). The same shift applies to the compounds: veintiuna casas, treinta y un libros, cuarenta y una sillas. The hundreds also agree from 200 upwards: doscientas casas, trescientas personas, quinientas mujeres. Cien, mil and un millón do not change for gender. The midrange numbers (dos, tres, cuatro... up to noventa y nueve) also do not change for gender except for the uno \u002F una shift.",{"q":790,"a":791},"Does Spanish in Spain really pronounce c and z differently from Latin America?","Yes. In Spain (with the exception of parts of Andalusia and the Canary Islands), the letters c (before e or i) and z are pronounced like the English unvoiced th in think. So cinco is THIN-ko, doce is DO-the, once is ON-the. In Latin America and parts of southern Spain, the same letters are pronounced as s, so cinco is SIN-ko, doce is DO-se, once is ON-se. The distinction is called distinción in Spain and seseo elsewhere. Neither is more correct, and Spanish speakers understand both effortlessly. Pick the one that matches the variety you are learning.",{},"\u002Fresources\u002Fspanish\u002Fnumbers-in-spanish",{"title":37,"description":777},"resources\u002Fspanish\u002Fnumbers-in-spanish",[797,798,799,800],"spanish vocabulary","spanish for beginners","spanish numbers","language learning","Uno, dos, tres, cuatro, cinco, seis, siete, ocho, nueve, diez. After that, eleven to fifteen are irregular (once, doce, trece, catorce, quince) and sixteen to nineteen are contracted (dieciséis, diecisiete, dieciocho, diecinueve) with a written accent on dieciséis. The 21-29 block also contracts to one word with an accent (veintiuno, veintidós), but 31 onwards switches to three words with y (treinta y uno). Cien is exactly 100 and before nouns; ciento is for 101-199. Five hundred is quinientos, seven hundred is setecientos, both irregular. 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