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PointRuleExampleEnglish
0–15each has its own wordonce / quinceeleven / fifteen
16–29one word: dieci- or veinti- and the unitdieciséis / veintidóssixteen / twenty-two
31–99the tens, y, the unit: three wordstreinta y uno / cuarenta y cincothirty-one / forty-five
100cien alone or before a noun, ciento before another numbercien euros / ciento veintea hundred euros / a hundred and twenty
1000mil takes no un and stays the same after any numbermil / tres mila thousand / three thousand
A1Hundredsfrom 200, they agree with the noundoscientas personastwo hundred people
A1millóna noun: millones in the plural, de before what it countsdos millones de personastwo million people
A1unoun before a masculine noun, una before a feminine oneveintiún años / veintiuna casastwenty-one years / twenty-one houses
A1Ordinalsprimero to décimo; they agree with the noun and go before itla segunda callethe second street
A2primer / tercerprimero and tercero drop -o before a masculine singular nounel primer día / el tercer pisothe first day / the third floor
Trap500, 700 and 900 change their first partquinientos / setecientos / novecientosfive hundred / seven hundred / nine hundred
Trapno y after the hundredsciento veinte / doscientos cincoa hundred and twenty / two hundred and five

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