Spanish Numbers

Have you ever been at a loss at a checkout in a Spanish supermarket, or at a market stall, when you are given the cost of your purchases? Well you need to learn your Spanish numbers.

Spanish numbers are a little different to English ones.

The first thing you need to be aware of is that some Spanish numbers reflect the gender of nouns they precede.

'One', in Spanish 'uno' becomes 'un' before a masculine noun, and 'una' before a feminine noun, for example:

Between 1 and 1000, these are the numbers to look out for.

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And of course, each time you reach a hundred, the cycle would repeat, i.e.

Now that we have got that out of the way, lets get going with our Spanish numbers.

So here we go:

As you can see 16 - 19 are formed slightly differently to the other numbers:

16. dieciséis - literally 'ten and six', and so on.

Let's continue. . .

From thirty onwards, the pattern changes slightly insofar as we have to add 'y uno', 'y dos' etc., and this is the same for forty, fifty, sixty, all the way up to ninety.