Numbers 100 to 999.999

Numbers 100 to 999.999

100 cien (see-en)
101 ciento uno (see-en-toh oo-no)
102 ciento dos
103 ciento tres
110 ciento diez
120 ciento veinte
199 ciento noventa y nueve
200 doscientos (dohs-see-en-tohs)
201 doscientos uno
255 doscientos cincuenta y cinco
282 doscientos ochenta y dos
300 trescientos (tray-see-en-tohs)
400 cuatrocientos (kwa-troh-see-en-tohs)
500 quinientos (keen-ee-en-tohs)
600 seiscientos (say-ssee-en-tohs)
700 setecientos (set-ay-see-en-tohs)
800 ochocientos (oh-cho-see-en-tohs)
900 novecientos (no-bay-see-en-tohs)
1.000 mil (mill)
1.001 mil uno
1.010 mil diez
1.100 mil cien
1.538 mil quinientos treinta y ocho
1.999 mil novecientos noventa y nueve
2.000 dos mil
3.000 tres mil
9.000 nueve mil
10.000 diez mil
15.000 quince mil
27.000 veintisiete mil
76.000 setenta y seis mil
99.999 noventa y nueve mil novecientos noventa y nueve
100.000 cien mil
210.005 doscientos diez mil cinco
305.111 trescientos cinco mil ciento once
500.000 quinientos mil
860.789 ochocientos sesenta mil setecientos ochenta y nueve
911.222 novecientos once mil doscientos veintidós
Pronunciation Notes
The g in biología and página is a soft, throatal g sound. It does not have an English equivalent, but it is very much like the English h in "help", except made further back in the throat, like one was softly clearing their throat.
The j in reloj and trabajar is pronounced in a similar manner as the g in Note 1.
There are two very similar-sounding words in this lesson - por qué, and porque. The accent on por qué tells you that the stress is on that syllable (qué). In porque, the stress is on the second-to-last syllable, which is por-; when speaking, you must make sure you pronounce these words correctly becuase your pronunciation and the context of the word are the only clues others will have about what you are saying.

Numbers 100 to 999.999
If you've looked at the numbers in the New Words section, you may already have seen some patterns developing in Spanish numbers. First, the numbers 100, 200, 300, etc., all have a similar form - ciento, doscientos, trescientos... If you look carefully, and remember the numbers 2 through 9, you'll see that each hundred above 100 is just "two hundreds" (doscientos), "three hundreds" (trescientos), and so on. There are three exceptions, for pronunciations' sake - quinientos (500), setecientos (700), and novecientos. To form numbers in between the hundreds, you use the numbers 1-99 you learned in the last 2 lessons, but add the hundreds on to the front. Eleven is once, 111 is ciento once. Three-hundred and twenty is trescientos veinte, and so on.
Mil is Spanish for 1.000. No, this isn't "one point zero zero zero zero", this is one-thousand. English uses a comma to separate thousands, millions, etc., in a number. Spanish uses the period (".") instead. In English, we would expect to see this number: 12,399,100. In Spanish, the same number is written: 12.399.100. In much the same way, where English uses the period to denote numbers between whole numbers (as in "12.99"), Spanish uses a comma ("12,99"), but this will be discussed in another lesson.

Multiples of 1000 are treated as such - 2000 is dos mil, literally "two thousand". Three thousand is tres mil, and so on. This pattern is the same for thousands up to 999.000 (that's nine-hundred ninety-nine thousand), so that 50.000 is cincuenta mil, and 231.000 is doscientos treinta y uno mil. Combining these two rules for numbers, we can read numbers like 123.456 (ciento veintitres mil cuatrocientos cincuenta y seis) and 784.675 ( setecientos ochenta y cuatro mil seiscientos setenta y cinco). So now, practice saying things like:

The current year. (mil novecientos noventa y tres)
How many miles are on your car. (cien mil cuatroscientos treinta y dos)
The number of pages in the book you're reading. (trescientos ochenta)
The number of CDs and tapes you own. (doscientos cinco)
Your yearly salary. (diez mil)