Calentamiento: Match what you have and what you study, based on the item.

• TENGO:1. ___ una novela2. ___ un mapa3. ___ un libro de los aztecas4. ___ un piano5. ___ un microscopio6. ___ una computadora7. ___ un diccionario bilingüe8. ___ una calculadora

• ESTUDIO:• a. español• b. biología• c. geografía• d. historia• e. informática• f. literatura• g. matemáticas• h. música

¡Atención!

• Book work will not be due until MONDAY– Homecoming present from me.

• You have a quiz on Monday.

• If you have trouble with the MSL exercises, view the tutorials in MSL for numbers and possessive adjectives.

The Numbers 101–3,000,000

we simply start with the numbers two, three, four, etc. . . .

The Multiples of One HundredWe already know that one hundred is . . .

cien

To form the multiples of one hundred,

dostres

and add cientos

cientoscientos

cuatrocientoscinco

Five hundred, seven hundred and nine hundred are exceptions.

We don’t say cincocientos, but rather . . .quinientos*

100200300400500

The Multiples of One Hundred

seis

ocho

cientos

cientos

sieteWe don’t say sietecientos, but rather . . .setecientos*

nueveWe don’t say nuevecientos, but rather . . .novecientos*

mil

600

700

800

900

1000 Notice that we simply say “thousand,” not “one thousand.”

(mil, not un mil)

100

101

cien

ciento uno

cien = 100 even

110 ciento diez

ciento quince, etc.115

cien > ciento with any number over 100 even

Notice that “y” (and) is not used between the hundreds’ and tens’ places.

The Larger Numbers

ciento treinta y uno

ciento cincuenta y siete

131

157

The Larger Numbers

“Y” is used, however, between the tens’ and ones’ places when there is a digit other than 0 in the tens’ place.

248

591

888

doscientos cuarenta y ochoquinientos noventa y unoochocientos ochenta y ocho

The Larger NumbersSee if you can write and say the following

numbers in Spanish.

dos milsiete milveinte milcien milquinientos mil

The Multiples of One Thousand

mil10002000700020.000100.000500.000

The multiples of one thousand are formed simply by the counting numbers two, three, seven, etc. plus mil. Mil is

invariable when used for counting.

(Remember, one thousand is just mil.)

Notice that a decimal point is used with large numbers instead of a comma as in English.

1492 fourteen hundred ninety-two

The Larger NumbersWith one thousand and its multiples in combination with hundreds, we must spell and read the number starting with the number of thousands and then the number of hundreds, since there is no way in Spanish to say fourteen hundred, thirty-five hundred, etc.

mil cuatrocientos noventa y dos(one thousand four hundred ninety-two)

In English we can say:

In Spanish we must say:

18102525

mil ochocientos diezdos mil quinientos veinticinco

1789 mil setecientos ochenta y nueve

3008 tres mil ocho

The Larger Numbers–some practice

1984

1111

mil novecientos ochenta y cuatro

mil ciento once

2001 dos mil uno

9090 nueve mil noventa

1100 mil cien

The Larger Numbers–some practice

999.999

1.000.000

2.000.0003.000.000

novecientos noventa y nueve mil novecientos noventa y nueve

un millón

dos millonestres millones

As opposed to one thousand, one million is expressed with the indefinite article un.

Multiples of one million are expressed with the counting number and the plural form millones. Notice that the plural form loses the written accent.

The Larger Numbers

unodostrescuatroveintecuarentacien

doscientosquinientosmiltres milun millóncien millonesetc.

Counting numbers are always invariable

1

2

the multiples of one hundred

un, una

But some numbers agree in gender when used as adjectives

740.361 librossetecientos cuarenta mil trescientos sesenta y un libros

740.361 plumassetecientas cuarenta mil trescientas sesenta y una plumas

The numbers as adjectives

millón, millones + de before a noun

BUT only with round numbers.

87.000.000 librosochenta y siete millones de libros

BUT . . . 87.000.022 libros

Millón and millones are followed by de when used with a noun.

ochenta y siete millones veintidós libros

FIN