centos / mil / millón

Hundreds and Thousands

Level 3

Hundreds agree in gender: douscentos euros, duascentas persoas. Mil never changes: tres mil. Millón works like a noun and takes de: un millón de habitantes.

How It Works

100 to 199. Cen is used alone and before a noun or mil: cen euros, cen mil. Cento is used when more numbers follow: cento un libros, cento unha páxinas, cento vinte. The word e goes only between the tens and the units: cento vinte e tres. See numbers up to cen.

200 to 900. Each has a masculine and a feminine form:

  • douscentos / duascentas (both parts change)
  • trescentos / trescentas, catrocentos / catrocentas
  • cincocentos / cincocentas, or quiñentos / quiñentas (both are standard)
  • seiscentos / seiscentas, setecentos / setecentas, oitocentos / oitocentas, novecentos / novecentas

Mil. Mil never changes and needs no un in front: mil euros, dous mil, vinte mil. The hundreds before mil still agree with the noun: duascentas mil persoas. Years are read as ordinary numbers: mil novecentos oitenta e cinco (1985), dous mil vinte e seis (2026).

Millón. Millón is a masculine noun: un millón, dous millóns. Before a noun, add de: tres millóns de euros. When more numbers follow, there is no de: un millón douscentos mil habitantes. A thousand million is mil millóns.

Hundreds of, thousands of. The plural nouns centos de and miles de give a rough idea of a large number: centos de persoas (hundreds of people), miles de veces (thousands of times). For approximate numbers, see approximate quantities.

Examples (6)

  1. O billete custa douscentos euros.

    The ticket costs two hundred euros.

    Word by Word: The ticket costs two-hundred euros.

  2. Na praza había duascentas persoas.

    There were two hundred people in the square.

    Word by Word: In-the square there-were two-hundred people.

    Persoas is feminine, so duascentas.

  3. O libro ten cento vinte páxinas.

    The book has one hundred and twenty pages.

    Word by Word: The book has hundred twenty pages.

    Cento, not cen, because more numbers follow.

  4. Naceu en mil novecentos oitenta e cinco.

    He was born in 1985.

    Word by Word: Was-born-he in thousand nine-hundred eighty and five.

  5. Vigo ten case trescentos mil habitantes.

    Vigo has almost three hundred thousand inhabitants.

    Word by Word: Vigo has almost three-hundred thousand inhabitants.

  6. Gañou un millón de euros na lotaría.

    She won a million euros in the lottery.

    Word by Word: Won-she a million of euros in-the lottery.

    Millón needs de before a noun.

Common Mistakes

  • Using the masculine hundred with a feminine noun.

    Viñeron douscentos persoas.
    Viñeron duascentas persoas.

    Hundreds agree with the noun. With a feminine noun, both parts of douscentos change: duascentas.

  • Making mil plural.

    Custou tres miles euros.
    Custou tres mil euros.

    The number mil never changes. Miles appears only as a noun meaning "thousands of": miles de euros.

  • Leaving out de after millón.

    Viven alí dous millóns persoas.
    Viven alí dous millóns de persoas.

    Millón is a noun, so it needs de before the noun it counts.

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centos / mil / millónLevel 3Hundreds and Thousands

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Hundreds and larger number expressions extend smaller-number patterns.

Words in This Pattern

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