#Learning Spanish Numbers

[theenglishnook]

Mastering Numbers, Dates, and Time Expressions in Spanish

Numbers in Spanish Understanding and using numbers, dates, and time expressions in Spanish is crucial for effective communication. Here’s a detailed guide on how to handle these aspects of the Spanish language: Cardinal Numbers Cardinal numbers are the basic numbers used for counting and indicating quantity. 0-10: cero, uno, dos, tres, cuatro, cinco, seis, siete, ocho, nueve, diez 11-20:…

[perplexingly]

I never learnt Spanish before coming here and so far these are the words I learnt (as in, I understand them completely and can use them effortlessly): hola, mira, vale, fuego, paella, berberecho, barbecho

[on-the-clear-blue]

Brain worms struck a nerve once more...

Just? Baby Dick, he is just so smol and full of hate.

I am just imagining this small 9 year old, taking on full aged adults and winning, then turning around and grinning like the devil at the remaining crooks

I just think Gotham Twitter would be like

Gothamite 1: Robin 4 is such angy, most stabby boy

Gothamite 2: He isn't even angry??? Like that boy is just autistic, I talked to him about proper pet care for like 45 minutes after getting mugged, Bats had a fucking 1000 mile stare.

Gothamite 3: If you want real angry Robin, you need to look at n.1 or @ Realwing. I was a goon for a bit out of collage, he broke 3 ribs and my collar bone by pushing me down the stairs and then jumping on me.

Gothamite 1: Can't see it, Nightwing is too pure.

Gothamite 2: He has fucking killed/brutally maimed people? Parasocial much??

And like, also more on Baby Dickie...that boy did not speak English as his main language until he came to live with Bruce, Halys circus tours in Europe mostly? Give me little Dickie just looking at Bruce with uncomprehending eyes as the man tries to explain that Dickie will be living with him.

Give me baby Dick with the cutest thick French accent as a boy (side note, have you seen children speak French? It's so fucking cute, they sound so fancy but still so very baby) Like I feel like he spoke a hodgepodge of languages with the carnies? Maybe that carries over to his Robin ages.

Robin, running up to Batman, cycling through 5 different languages and two dialects, then just holds out a frog to Bruce expectantly.

Bruce, who missed about every 3rd word and had to translate French, then German, then Portuguese and then Romani to English in a matter of seconds, "Yes...You may keep it."

Dick, giving Bruce a very concerned look, then to the frog, then to Bruce again "You...want to... to own it? Is it not...giftig? ruim para comer? " Groaning he flaps his hand trying to think of the right word, "Does not...work well with me? Make feel bad? Is sick?"

Bruce nodded slowly, "Poisonous or toxic is the word you are looking for Chum, no its just a cane Toad, Ce n'est pas toxique, c'est sans danger."

(Dickie does keep the toad, His name is Herr Haly and he lived very well in the gardens, he died not long after Jason came around)

Later when Dick went to do Teen Titans, the reason Starfires English is kinda messed up is because Dicks brain is hardwired for like four other things, and English was just the one she was looking for, he mentally translates every word from another language to English, so the grammar is a bit rough some times.

[cardentist]

I genuinely hate the talking point about americans being bad at geography, because the only stance that anybody can seem to take on it is that you'd only be bad at labeling a map if you're lazy and ignorant

I've never passed a single test labeling American States from elementary school to high school. I kept my schedule with me throughout the entire year because if I didn't look at it every day I'd forget which classrooms I had to go to and when, and sometimes I'd still get it wrong. I have my own home address written down on a piece of paper because I won't remember where I live otherwise.

genuinely there are just people who have a difficult time with rote memorization. some people just have horse piss memory in general.

at some point the talking point shifted from making fun of racists who can't even find the people they're bigoted against on a map to just baseline insisting that being bad at geography is a moral issue in and of itself.

[hadleysmis]

random question, but how did you learn to speak four languages fluently??

Easy! I'm not fluent in four 🤣

My bio is misleading... it just indicates which languages I'm able to understand at least on the intermediate level. (I.e. The intention is to inform which posts I may interact with) Overly, I would say I'm monolingual, actually 😆

In fact, I'm more confident that you are fluent/know more Korean than me from the looks of it! You have a way better grasp at the language, talking about translating Les Mis and Hamlet (wow!)

Jic though, if you were still interested in how I learnt four to an intermediate level:

Korean -> native / semi-relearned (Home country / Family)

English -> primary language (Migration / Assimilation)

Spanish -> did it for... what I believe is equivalent to 'End of high school' (Sixth form ; Bachillerato)

Japanese -> University (Study abroad did the most heavy lifting there ngl xd)

Thank you very much for the ask!! ^^

[nereb-and-dungalef]

I keep drinking coffee thinking it's gonna make me Productive and then instead of doing the work I actually have to do I just compulsively make spreadsheets :(

[alluraaaa]

oh another silly headcanon i have that i don’t think i’ve shared here yet. the castleship and the paladin armor have universal translators that scan the paladin’s brains and “upload” the languages they speaks into its database so that they can understand what anyone is saying. but lance refuses to add spanish to the database because directly translating spanish/cuban slang would “butcher” it and ruin the comedy!!! if you wanna understand what he’s saying you can learn the language the old fashioned way 🙄

[nadhie]

teaching myself basic sign language for my retail job wasn't on my 2025 bingo cart but I'm glad I'm here ngl

[mcnuggyy]

animnapu't siyam 😏

[gaydivorcetual]

crazy that indonesian isnt even top 29 help??? its 56(?)

IKR??? esp bcs Indonesia is like the fourth modt populated country in the world ,,, like obv mandarin and english n hindi wld be above it, then spanish n arabic bcs its got so many countries, but its wildddd its so low for native speakers. Even if u include non native speakers its only 11th :0

[multilingual-wannabe]

english - francais - espanol - patwa - deutsch 1 - 20

zero - zéro - cero - zéwo - null

one - un - uno - yonn - eins

two - deux - dos - dé - zwei

three - trois - tres - twa - drei

four - quatre - cuatro - kat - vier

five - cinq - cinco - sènk - fünf

six - six - séis - sis - sechs

seven - sept - siete - sèt - sieben

eight - huit - ocho - (y)wit - acht

nine - neuf - nueve - nèf - neun

ten - dix - diez - dis - zehn

eleven - onze - once - wonz - elf

twelve - douze - doce - douz - zwölf

thirteen - treize - trece - twèz - dreizehn

fourteen - quatorze - catorce - katòz - vierzehn

fifteen - quizne - quince - kènz - fünfzehn

sixteen - seize - dieciséis - sèz - sechzehn

seventeen - dixsept - diecisiete - disèt - siebzehn

eighteen - dixhuit - dieciocho - dizwit - achtzehn

nineteen - dixneuf - diecinueve - diznèf - neunzehn

twenty - vingt - viente - vèn - zwanzig

[dandelionsandplatypuses]

My toxic trait is I join online language learning communities and just dump a bunch of research-supported information on them that corrects their YouTube polyglot influencer-provided misinformation and misunderstandings of real research and then I vanish again

[calyroco]

Very unfortunate when my obscure foreign media of interest doesn't even have a fan translation. You mean I'm gonna have to translate this for me? All on my own?

[spanishskulduggery]

Hi there, really informative and interesting blog, big thanks for the work :) How would you say a weird ordinal number like 49257th? I read your post on ordinals and found scant more searching the interweb. Cheers! - Planetarywalker

I believe it would be: cuarenta y nueve milésimo/a ducentésimo/a quincuagésimo/a séptimo/a

In general, people don't like to use the ordinal numbers after 10

And they definitely don't like to use them after 100; because EVERYTHING has to be adjusted for gender

...The reason for that is when you do ordinal numbers like this, every "benchmark" number has one of the -ésimo words... the numbers in the thousandth, hundredth, tenth and the last number are all specialized which makes it very tedious

In your example: cuarenta y nueve milésimo/a is "49 thousandth", then ducentésimo "two hundredth", then quincuagésimo/a "fiftieth" + séptimo/a "seventh"

Whether it's all masculine or feminine depends on the gender of the thing

...The ordinal numbers primarily past 20 are combined; so vigésimo/a primero/a is "twenty-first", so that's why 57 is combined like that; you have the number in the tenth position + the ordinal number 1-9

To make it worse, primero/a can be primer in front of masculine nouns, and tercero/a for "third" is tercer in front of masculine nouns so it would be even more annoying

You are very rarely going to have to say el vigésimo primer libro "the 21st book"

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Typically, if a native speaker saw this they'd probably say something like... cliente número 49257 [cuarenta y nueve mil, doscientos cincuenta y siete]

Even centuries are listed in cardinal numbers instead

el siglo XVIII is "the 18th century", literally "century 18"

No one has time to say el vigésimo siglo instead of siglo veinte for the 20th century

And monarchs will get ordinal numbers between 1-10, like Alfonso X (décimo), but you'll see Luis XIV [catorce] instead for "Louis the 14th"

Again; native speakers have no time and patience for ordinal numbers and they will avoid them as much as possible and God help you if you give them a number that isn't even 100, 200, 300... give them 207th and they'll probably just say doscientos/doscientas nueve instead

[marsixm]

im in a weird grey area rn where ive learned enough spanish over the last 2 years that i can say small phrases and understand the gists of things so ppl ask if i speak spanish and im like VERY VERY VERY little and they hit me with a whole sentence and im like 😳😅 but then i cant say i speak nothing bc i do understand a little and i can say hi bye thank you have a good day etc. im basically that family guy bit where the guy only speaks 1 sentence of english and the other sentence explaining it

[queerofthedagger]

a couple of days ago i finished the spanish duolingo course so after some back and forth, i started on french, and not to repeat myself but it really is wild how much you subconsciously keep of a language if you ever engaged with it at all. like. i had three years of french at school which was literally over a decade ago, but between that and my latin and spanish, it's just coming back SO easily. the language brain is just WILD. my most beloved