Nevertheless, if you learn this accent, it will still be intelligible to how people in Spain speak ‘Castellano.’ Numeral Note: The pronunciations in the tables are Latin American Spanish accents, which differs from how people in Spain pronounce the names. Let’s see their translation and pronunciation. So, how do you say the numbers from 1 to 10 in Spanish? You will see how many similarities they have! Start from the basic cardinal numbers until you reach 10, then move your way to count higher numbers until you reach 1000.Ĭounting the numbers isn’t hard for someone who has learned English numbers. Remember when you learned the basic numbers in your native language? Now you have to do the same but in Spanish. ❼uáles numeros jugaste en la lotería? (What numbers did you play for the lottery?).❼uál es tu número de teléfono? (What is your phone number?).So, in today’s article, you will get a complete easy guide to learning the Spanish numbers from 1 to 1000 and start counting to avoid those challenging situations.Ĭardinal Spanish Numbers: An Easy Guide With Sounds How To Say ‘Numbers’ In Spanish Learning the numbers is one of the first steps to learning a new language, as we use them daily and everywhere. I understand how frustrating it can be when you are trying to communicate with a native speaker in their language. Now you are in the middle of a language barrier with many people waiting for their turn in line. You never got the chance to practice the numbers in Spanish! But after learning a few words such as ‘ hello‘ and ‘ you are welcome,’ you stopped learning more vocabulary. You find out that the seller only speaks Spanish. To form multiples of a hundred you only have to add the digit number before “mil”: dos mil, tres mil, cuatro mil, cinco mil, seis mil, siete mil, etc.Imagine yourself at a local market in Latin America. The “u” in “nueve” becomes “o”: “noventa”, “novecientos”. 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. 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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