Modern Spanish Grammar: A Practical Guide

Ordinal numbers 7.2noventa 90cien, ciento 100ciento un(o)/-a 101ciento treinta y cinco 135doscientos/-as 200trescientos/-as 300cuatrocientos/-as 400quinientos/-as 500seiscientos/-as 600setecientos/-as 700ochocientos/-as 800novecientos/-as 900mil 1.000mil un(o)/-a 1.001mil quinientos/-as treinta y seis 1.536dos mil 2.000un millón (de) 1.000.000dos millones (de) 2.000.000NOTEIn numbers, Spanish practice is to use a full stop to mark off thousands where English uses acomma, e.g. 1.987.656 habitantes (un millón novecientos ochenta y siete milseiscientos cincuenta y seis habitantes ‘1,987,656 inhabitants’), and a comma as thedecimal point where English uses a full stop, e.g. 97,4 grados (noventa y siete comacuatro grados ‘ninety-seven point four degrees’).(a) Forms involving un(o)/-a and cientos/-as agree in gender with a following noun.Un(o) shortens in the same way as when it is an indefinite article (see 4.4).doscientas cincuenta liras ‘two hundred and fifty liras’veintiuna libras ‘twenty-one pounds’cincuenta y un libros ‘fifty-one books’(b) Ciento is shortened to cien immediately before a noun; cien is the form also oftenused in isolation:cien páginas ‘a hundred pages’el número cien(to) ‘the number one hundred’veinte por ciento ‘twenty per cent’7.2Ordinal numbersprimer(o)/-a (see 5.1)segundo/-atercer(o)/-a (see 5.1)cuarto/-aquinto/-asexto/-aséptimo/-a1st2nd3rd4th5th6th7th31