Numbers In Spanish

 Numbers in Spanish - Part I
By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Mark_Hazard]Mark Hazard

Learning how to count in Spanish is among the most useful things you can learn. Imagine how many times you’ll go shopping in your life, whether it’s to the supermarket or to buy a new pair of shoes; and imagine how often you encounter numbers on a daily basis, every time you complete some kind of transaction.

As well as being almost essential to your knowledge of Spanish, the numbers in Spanish are easy to learn for a couple of good reasons.

First, they follow easy to remember patterns and so you can learn the entire numbering system fast.

Second, if you are in Spain or Latin America you’ll be confronted by the sound of the numbers every day and quickly be able to internalise their sounds. That means that you’ll be able to recognise the number as soon as it is spoken and repeat it instantly when required.

Cardinal Numbers: Spanish numbers from 0 to 20

The Cardinal numbers what we use to describe quantity – in other words one, two, three, etc - as opposed to the ordinal numbers, which are used to describe order - first, second, third, etc. We take a look at the numbers from zero to twenty below:

0. cero

1. uno

2. dos

3. tres

4. quatro

5. cinco

6. seis

7. siete

8. ocho

9. nueve

10. diez

11. once

12. doce

13. trece

14. catorce

15. quince

16. dieciséis

17. diecisiete

18. dieciocho

19. diecinueve

20. veinte

The main things to note here are that numbers ending in one follow the gender of the following noun and if the noun is masculine uno shortens to un; for example, veintiuno becomes veintiún in the masculine (the accent is added to preserve the emphasis on the u); if the noun is feminine uno becomes una.

If you practise counting from 1 to 10 and 10 back down to 1, then from 11 to 20 and down again you’ll quickly pick the numbers up. If you are in a Spanish speaking environment and find yourself in a shop, start to listen to the numbers when you pay – this will help you listen and understand the numbers as they’re being spoken and will allow you to reproduce those sounds well when you need to speak them.

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