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Uno, dos, tres… / Numbers in Spanish

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Uno, dos, tres…

Numbers in Spanish

Numbers in Spanish are easy to learn! Let’s see why:

  • Once you’ve learned numbers from 1 to 15 it gets easier. You probably know them already.
  • Starting at 16 what we say is “ten plus six”: dieciséis (diez y seis). It’s just contracted into one word. This happens up to veintinueve (29).
  • Starting at treinta (thirty) we say and write “thirty and one”, “thirty and two”, “thirty and three” and so on…
  • Learn the numbers for the multiples of ten: veinte, treinta, cuarenta, cincuenta, sesenta, setenta, ochenta and noventa. They all end in -enta except veinte (twenty).

Then, it’s really easy – all numbers in Spanish after twenty-nine just involve adding the multiple of ten plus one to nine.

Examples
31 treinta y uno (thirty and one)
57 cincuenta y siete (fifty and seven)
24 veinticuatro (twenty and four)
89 ochenta y nueve (eighty and nine)

Ordinal numbers, on the other hand, are used to talk about floors in a house or building and years and semesters at school. In Spanish, we generally don’t use ordinal numbers to say the date:

Examples
2 de agosto – August 2nd
4 de septiembre – September 4th
19 de julio – July 19th

However, we do use the ordinal number for “first” to say a date like May 1st (el primero de mayo).

Now, let’s see and hear the cardinal numbers from 1 to one million.

Números cardinales – Cardinal Numbers
1 uno
2 dos
3 tres
4 cuatro
5 cinco
6 seis
7 siete
8 ocho
9 nueve
10 diez
11 once
12 doce
13 trece
14 catorce
15 quince
16 dieciséis
17 diecisiete
18 dieciocho
19 diecinueve
20 veinte
21 veintiuno
22 veintidós
23 veintitrés
24 veinticuatro
25 veinticinco
26 veintiséis
27 veintisiete
28 veintiocho
29 veintinueve
30 treinta
31 treinta y uno
32 treinta y dos
40 cuarenta
43 cuarenta y tres
44 cuarenta y cuatro
50 cincuenta
55 cincuenta y cinco
56 cincuenta y seis
60 sesenta
63 sesenta y tres
64 sesenta y cuatro
70 setenta
73 setenta y tres
75 setenta y cinco
80 ochenta
81 ochenta y uno
82 ochenta y dos
90 noventa
94 noventa y cuatro
95 noventa y cinco
100 cien
1,000 mil
1,000,000 un millón

To finish this lesson, let’s learn the most important ordinal numbers.

Números ordinales
Ordinal Numbers
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1ero Primero
First
2do Segundo
Second
3ero Tercero
Third
4to Cuarto
Fourth
5to Quinto
Fifth
6to Sexto
Sixth
7mo Séptimo
Seventh
8vo Octavo
Eighth
9no Noveno
Ninth
10mo Décimo
Tenth

In this post, we reviewed numbers in Spanish, including cardinal numbers and a sampling of ordinal numbers.  Now you should have no problems saying ages, prices, or grade levels! If you haven’t seen our posts on other essential vocabulary topics, like Days of the week, months, seasons, and other expressions of time or now you can go on to learning how to Tell the time in Spanish.

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