Spanish Numbers Advanced

Large numbers, hundreds that agree in gender, fractions, decimals and percentages.

Large numbers

NumberSpanishNote
100cien / cientocien before nouns, ciento + numbers
200doscientos/asagrees in gender!
500quinientos/asirregular (not cincocientos)
700setecientos/asirregular
900novecientos/asirregular
1,000milnever "un mil"
1,000,000un millón deneeds "de" before noun
Hundreds agree in gender!

Doscientos libros (200 books — masc.)
Doscientas páginas (200 pages — fem.)
Quinientas personas (500 people — fem.)

Decimal and thousands separators

Spanish swaps commas and periods!

English: 1,000.50 → Spanish: 1.000,50
English: $3.99 → Spanish: 3,99 €
Mil = 1.000 | Un millón = 1.000.000

Fractions and percentages

FractionSpanish
1/2medio / media / la mitad
1/3un tercio
1/4un cuarto
3/4tres cuartos
10%el diez por ciento

Uno and its forms

Uno → un before masculine, una before feminine

Un libro (one book) — drops -o
Una mesa (one table)
Veintiún libros (21 books) — with accent
Veintiuna mesas (21 tables)

Quick quiz

1. 100 people = _____ personas.

2. 200 pages (fem.) = _____ páginas.

3. 500 in Spanish = _____.

4. 1,000 = _____. (never "un mil")

5. One million people = un millón _____ personas.

6. In Spanish, 1,000.50 is written _____.

7. Half = _____.

8. 21 books = veinti_____ libros.

9. 10% = el diez _____ ciento.

10. 700 = _____.

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