/θjen/
Translation
a hundred
Word origin
A shortened form of 'ciento', from Latin 'centum' ('a hundred'). The same root gives English 'cent', 'century' and 'per cent'.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- centum
- English cognates
- cent, century
Examples
.
There were more than a hundred people in the room.
páginas.
The book has a hundred pages.
.
I have told you a hundred times.
falso.
The hundred-dollar note was fake.
.
There are a hundred days left until the summer holidays.
Used in
Grammar articles
(5)The Future and Conditional of Probability in Spanish (¿Qué hora será?, Serían las tres)
Spanish Ordinals, Fractions, Dates and Time (el primer día, media hora, son las tres y cuarto)
Spanish Pronoun Order: Indirect Before Direct, and the le-to-se Rule
Spanish Punctuation and Capitalisation: the opening ¿ and ¡, lowercase lunes and español
Spanish Quantifiers: mucho, poco, demasiado, todo, cada (mucha gente vs trabaja mucho)
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