Numbers in Spanish

¡Los números!

Imagine how life would be had numbers not been invented. Most people would claim it would be an incalculable mess… literally! For a start, we could not count, nor could we order book pages or identify people and objects based on their identity documents and barcodes respectively. In a numberless world, we would not be able to measure anything, nor could we organize meetings as we would not be able to read the time. Similarly, we would not know which bus to take to go places, we could not call anyone nor could we learn things’ prices, let alone being able to use money. A dreadful scenario indeed! We are then unquestionably way better off with numbers as an essentially omnipresent component of our lives.

Here are los números desde (from) el 1 hasta (to) el 20:

1. Note -ce pattern at the end
2. Note dieci- pattern at the beginning

As we move on to the twenties, los números desde el 21 hasta el 29 observe a slight change as shown below:

Note the final -e from veinte becomes -i then units are added to form one word

Finally, to form numbers between 31 and 99 we simply place the conjunction y (and) after each set of ten followed by the unit:

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