30įrom 40 to 90, all numbers in Spanish end in -enta. Numbers in Spanish after thirty have the same structure: first the ten multiples and then the numbers from 1 to 9, and a “y” in the middle. Notice the pattern: the word “veinte” in all these numbers drops the “e” at the end: veint- 20 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. So it makes more sense in the context of “I want 3 orders of tacos, please” or “It costs 15 pesos”. First of all, it is not the first thing we teach, since to use numbers in Spanish you need more content: to count, you need things, and for that, you need basic words. In the Fluenz Spanish program, we do just that. That is why your best bet is taking it step by step and simply learning a few at a time really well before moving on to the next batch. Numbers are always a stumble because they require a lot of memorization. These will be your building blocks for larger, more complex numbers in Spanish. Since there is no rule for these, you have to learn them by heart.
Here are some tricks to master numbers in Spanish.įirst: all you need to know is to count from 1 to 15: 1 Most people remember “uno”, “dos”, and “tres”, but then, after that, things get a bit trickier. You might know some numbers in Spanish already, maybe you have heard them in songs or asked for prices at a store.
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Two facts make numbers in Spanish easy to learn: you already know more than you realize–from the movie Tres Amigos to Dos Equis beer, Spanish numbers are everywhere–, and more importantly, the rules to form every Spanish-language number from 20 to 99 are actually super simple. We use numbers in practically every situation you can think of and numbers in Spanish are no exception–from getting two coffees to meeting someone at 9. Numbers in Spanish: learn to count from 1 to 100
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