310 Complete Spanish Grammar
• Cień indicates the number, quantity, or amount before mil and millones.
Hay cień mil dólares para tu proyecto. There is one hundred thousand dollars for
your project.
Dicen que el dictador tiene cień They say the dictator has a hundred million
millones de dólares en el banco. dollars in the bank.
Notę that the preposition de follows milion or millones in Spanish, preceding a noun.
En espańol. Escńbe los numeros que aparecen entre parenteńs.
1. 2. |
personas (35) h abi tan tes 12 - 3411 |
8. 9. . |
copias (502) alumn as (261 |
3. |
castillos 13221 |
10. |
soldados (100.000) |
4. |
1apic.es (161 |
11. |
dias (311 |
5. |
billetes (67) |
12. |
mi Ha s ( m.iles) (7001 |
6. |
ca bali eros (7l 1 |
13. |
de dólares (1.000.000) |
1. |
maletas (100) |
14. |
tanetas (51) |
Cardinal numbers are used:
• to count.
Yeinticuatro, veinticinco... Twenty-four, twenty-five .. .
• to tell time (la hora). The third-person singular form of ser (es, era) is used for one oclock and any time that includes la una: la unay diez minutos. The third-person plural of ser (son, eran) is used for all other times.
Ii’sonę o’clock exactly.
It isfour ten.
It wasfive twenty when they left the classroom.
Es la una en punto.
Son las cuatro y diez.
Eran las cinco y veinte cuando salieron de clase.
The arithmetic expressions menos {minus) and y {and, plus) are used to tell time. The frac-tion media {half) is used to indicate the half hour. For telling time in English menos = to and
y = past.
Son las dos y cuarto. Salimos a las tres It is a ąuarter past two. We leave at a ąuarter
menos cuarto. to three.
;Podemos irnos a las dos y media? May we leave at half past two?