![]() Will you guess how to write a number in full? Enter a number and try to write it down in your head, or maybe on a piece of paper, before displaying the result. Let’s move now to the practice of the numbering rules in Spanish. In Puerto Rico, un billón is 10 9 (equivalent to the US billion). Thus, we have millón (10 6, million), mil millones (10 9, billion), billón (10 12, trillion), mil billones (10 15, quadrillion), trillón (10 18, quintillion), mil trillones (10 21, sextillion)… The only (local) exception to this rule is the Spanish spoken in Puerto Rico where the short scale is in use. The Spanish language uses the long scale system in which we alternate between a scale word and its thousand. ![]() Thousands are formed by stating the multiplier digit before it, except for one thousand itself: mil, dos mil, tres mil, cuatro mil, cinco mil … Tens and units are linked with y (and), as in treinta y cinco.The same applies for the hundreds where one word is created by removing the space between the multiplier and the hundred word: cien (plural cientos), doscientos, trescientos, cuatrocientos, quinientos, seiscientos, setecientos, ochocientos, and novecientos.The number 'one' has both a masculine and a feminine. Certain cardinal numbers in Spanish have feminine forms when used to modify feminine nouns. cinco casas - five houses diez niños - ten children tres amigos - three friends. The tens have specific names based on their multiplier digit root except for ten and twenty: diez, veinte, treinta, cuarenta, cincuenta, sesenta, setenta, ochenta, and noventa. The noun is plural (houses, children, friends), but the number is not (five, ten, three).The same applies up to twenty-nine: diecisiete, dieciocho … veintinueve. Diez y seis is phonetically shortened with an apocope as dieciséis. ![]() ![]() named after the ten (or the twenty) and the digit. Sixteen to twenty-nine are regular numbers, i.e.
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