How To Count To 100 In Spanish

Step one: read this guide. Step two: successfully avoid saying you’ve had 12 marriages when you’ve only had two.
Counting in Spanish represented by the outside of a house in Spain with the house number 158 visible.

Learning to count in another language may not necessarily sound like a fun time. It combines the frustrations of learning a language with math (unless you like math, in which case this will be great!). Numbers are one of the most important things you can know in a language, whether you’re asking for a table for four or for two café con leches.

Fortunately, numbers in Spanish aren’t that hard. Some would even say it’s as easy as uno, dos, tres. You’re groaning, and we can tell. Here’s everything you need to know, and once you’ve mastered all that, there’s lots more basic Spanish vocabulary to master.

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Spanish Numbers From Zero To Twenty

You’ll need to memorize the words for each individual Spanish number ranging from 0 to 20, and that’s for a couple of reasons: one, because counting higher than 20 will require you to use the words for single digits below 10, and because the words for numbers ranging from 11 to 19 don’t follow a totally predictable pattern (kind of like “eleven” and “twelve” in the English language).

zerocero
oneuno
twodos
threetres
fourcuatro
fivecinco
sixseis
sevensiete
eightocho
ninenueve
tendiez
elevenonce
twelvedoce
thirteentrece
fourteencatorce
fifteenquince
sixteendieciséis
seventeendiecisiete
eighteendieciocho
nineteendiecinueve
twentyveinte

The Rest Of The Tens in Spanish

You’ll also need to remember the words for “thirty,” “forty,” “fifty,” and so on.

thirtytreinta
fortycuarenta
fiftycincuenta
sixtysesenta
seventysetenta
eightyochenta
ninetynoventa
one hundredcien

Numbers In Spanish: Putting It All Together

Once you get to 20, the rest is pretty boilerplate and intuitive. When counting in Spanish from 21 to 29, the veinte becomes veinti, and the word for the individual digit gets tacked on to form a single compound word. So “twenty-one” becomes veintiuno, “twenty-six” becomes veintiséis (now with an accent over the “e”), and so on. Veintidós and veintitrés also get accents. By the way, the “v” is pronounced like a soft “b” here. Listen to the audio clips to get a feel for the pronunciation.

After 30, Spanish numbers become even more straightforward. The formula for “fifty-two” is basically “fifty and two.” Thus, “thirty-four” is treinta y cuatro; “eighty-nine” is ochenta y nueve. Hopefully you won’t ever need to use these when you’re making a reservation for a birthday dinner (Jesus be a place that takes separate checks), but whether you will or you won’t, Babbel’s got you covered.

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