/kiˈnjentos/
Translation
five hundred
Word origin
From Latin quingenti ('five hundred'), from quinque ('five') and centum ('hundred').
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- quingenti
Examples
.
The ticket costs five hundred euros.
quinientas .
We received five hundred applications for the post.
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The city has five hundred years of history.
Unlike most Spanish numbers, quinientos agrees in gender with the noun it counts: quinientos euros (masculine) but quinientas personas (feminine, five hundred people). The same pattern holds for every hundred from doscientos upward.
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