
While we use cardinal numbers to count things, we use "ordinal numbers" to put things in order " veintiuno punto siete." Ordinal Numbers "21.7" would be written "21,7" in Spanish and would be read The majority of Spanish-speaking countries do the opposite of English-speakingĬountries when it comes to decimal points and grouping thousands: commas are usedįor decimal points and periods are used to separate the groups of zeros. Strange looking decimal points in the right hand column above. For example 654,321 tables would be written outĪs " seiscient as cincuenta y cuatro mil trescient as veintiun a mesas." Decimal Points and Commas " -uno" and words ending in " -ientos" (all of the "hundreds"Įvery part of a number that can agree with the However, this only happens with numbers ending in As with other adjectives, we need to make our numbers agree in gender with
