Numbers from 100 to 1.000.000

Estos zapatos cuestan trescientos dólares

You already know how to count in Spanish up to 100. In this lesson you are going to learn the rest of the numbers.

100 — cien

101 — ciento uno

102 — ciento dos

103 — ciento tres

As you can see, there is no y connector between ciento and the units.

Don’t say: ciento y uno

Try it yourself:

104

110

120

125

143

168

With the rest of the hundreds the logic is the same.

200 — doscientos

300 — trescientos

400 — cuatrocientos

500 — quinientos

600 — seiscientos

700 — setecientos

800 — ochocientos

900 — novecientos

Try it yourself:

240

320

466

590

674

752

889

937

It’s very easy to say big numbers in Spanish, isn’t it?

However, there is a little exception related to the hundreds from 200 to 900. They change to the feminine form, when needed.

doscientos chicos

doscientas chicas

trescientos dólares

trescientas páginas

Try it yourself:

500 houses

500 books

700 trees

600 people

Let’s move to thousands.

1,000 — mil

2,000 — dos mil

3,000 — tres mil

1,180 — mil ciento ochenta

1,245 — mil doscientos cuarenta y cinco

3,076 — tres mil setenta y seis

Try it yourself:

1,020

1,594

2,743

3,932

5,815

The word mil in this case doesn’t change to the plural miles.

Miles can be only used to say “thousands” referring to a big number, without precision.

En la plaza hay miles de personas – There are thousands of people at the square

Now it should be easy for you to tell years in Spanish.

En 1990 – En mil novecientos noventa

En el año 2003 – En el año dos mil tres

The way of telling the year in Spanish is very straightforward.

Don’t say: En diecinueve noventa or En el año veinte y tres

Try it yourself:

1992

1939

1861

2018

After thousands come millions.

1,000,000 — un millón

2,000,000 — dos millones

3,569,432 — tres millones quinientos sesenta y nueve mil cuatrocientos treinta y dos

The word millón, though, has a plural form.

Try it yourself:

2,327,014

10,684,105

And the last number you should know is billion.

1,000,000,000 — mil millones

As you can guess, mil millones can be translated as “thousand of millions”. It’s very easy to memorize.

In some cases the words cientos, miles, millones and miles de millones, can be used to tell about big numbers of something, without precision.

cientos de coches — hundreds of cars

miles de ciudadanos — thousands of citizens

millones de años — millions of years

miles de millones de años luz — billons of light years

Ant that’s it. You know all Spanish numbers. From now on, try to practice them as frequently as you can.