Spanish Grammar Rules for
Numbers
There are certain
rules to consider and understand when learning
how to speak the Spanish language. Many of the
grammatical rules and procedures are very
different to the English language. The following
rules are explained, and examples have been
given to help students, or anybody learning
Spanish to gain a better understanding of this
language:
Grammar rules for use of
commas, full stops with numbers:
When
is comes to number rules, commas and full stops
are used in the opposite way to English.
-
Any number above 1000 takes on a full stop
as opposed to a comma - for example in
Spanish the numbers are written as 10.000,
100.000, 1.000.000.
-
When writing decimal numbers, as opposed to
use of full stops (points) in English,
commas are used in the Spanish language -
for example in Spanish the decimal numbers
are written as: 1.5 becomes 1,5 uno coma
cinco
Grammar
rules for number 100:
In Spanish one hundred translates to either cien
or ciento depending on the sentence or what you
are trying to say. Cien is used before numbers
larger than one hundred and ciento is used
before numbers smaller than one hundred. Some
examples of this grammar rule are as follows:-
-
cien mil
(100.000)
-
ciento seis (106).
Grammar
rules for number 1000:
It is
important to consider the number rules in Spanish.
The number 1000 is only found in the plural when
indicating thousands of. An example of this
grammar rule is as follows:
Grammar rules for number
1.000.000
There is
another important rule to consider when learning
the Spanish language and talking about one
million - before the use of a noun, the word de
follows mill�n.
The following example will explain this rule of
grammar:
Other Cardinal Number
Rules:
Before
masculine nouns, the o is dropped from uno. The
same rule follows for compound numerals. The
following examples clarify these grammatical
rules:
Some numbers have feminine forms. They are
usually identifiable as they follow a sequence.
The following numbers follow this rule: 21, 31,
41, 51, 61, 71, 81, 91, 200, 300, 400, 500, 600,
700, 800, 900. The following examples explain
this ruling:
In most circumstances, cardinal numbers will
precede ordinal numbers. This is shown in the
following example:
Ordinal Number
Rules:
Ordinal numbers normally precede the noun unless
when applied to a royal title such as this one:
The gender of the number and noun should agree
as per the following example:
The o is dropped from the words for first and
third (primero and tercero) before a masculine
singular noun as per the following example:
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