Language/Spanish/Vocabulary/Counting-and-Numbers

Números (numbers) are an essential, and highly common part of romantic languages. Although, there are many languages in which there are not números, and the people speaking them could not tell you a precise número for anything, Spanish, and other romantic languages, do contain números. And in these cultures, números are important. They are used to tell how many of things (dos celulares; two cellphones), how many people (una mesa para dos; a table for two), dates (el 23 de marzo de 2024, 23/3/24; March 23, 2024, 3/23/24), times (a las ochos; eight o’clock), etc. And thankfully, Spanish numbers are far simpler than French with 4 20s for 90. To start, let’s address 1-10. 1- uno 2- dos 3- tres 4- cuatro 5- cinco 6- seis 7- siete 8- ocho 9- nueve 10- diez And everything else 1-99 is based off of these. Well, these, and ‘y’, the word for ‘and’. 10’s are minorly more complicated, and more difficult to learn, as they are less connected, so we’ll start with the others. 20- veinte Now, with 20’s, there is no ‘y’ connecting them. You simply put them together, like in English, with no space or hyphen, and replace the ‘e’ with an ‘i’. 21- veintiuno 22- veintidós 23- veintitrés 24- veinticuatro 25- veinticinco 26- veintiséis 27- veintisiete 28- veintiocho 29- veintinueve Now, for the rest of the numbers, it is said in the form of 30 and 3, 40 and 6, 70 and 2. And they’re all rooted in the original numbers. 30- treinta (tres) 40- cuarenta (cuatro) 50- cincuenta (cinco) 60- sesenta (seis) 70- setenta (siete) 80- ochenta (ocho) 90- noventa (nueve) Then to create numbers such as 33, or 46, you’ll do it like this. 10’s digit, and 1’s digit. 30 (treinta) and (y) three (tres). Treinta y tres = Thirty-three Cuarenta y seis = Forty-six Setenta y dos = Seventy-two Now, for the difficult part. The 10’s are still rooted in the original numbers, but are minorly more complex. In English, it is eleven, and twelve, before it goes into the teens. But in Spanish, it is 11-15 based off the number itself, 16-19 based off 10 and the number. 11- once 12- doce 13- trece 14- catorce 15- quince 16- dieciséis 17- diecisiete 18- dieciocho 19- diecinueve Now that we have that, we only are going to have a few specific ones. First of all, 0 is cero, but now so we can go higher, I’ll explain these. You simply need to say the number of them before, then that, and then everything after. In English, we only say and once in a sentence, or twice at most. Whereas in Spanish, and is said many more times, particularly when saying numbers. 100- cien (y) 1,000- mil (y) 10,000- diez mil (y) 100,000- cien mil (y) 1,000,000- millón (y) 1,000,000,000- mil millones (y) Once you become familiar with these, you can say all even vaguely practical numbers in Spanish!