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Lesson 4 of 10

Counting to ten in Spanish

One to ten, for prices, platforms, rooms and how many beers. Play the ten Spanish words against the clock, with a note on how locals really use each one after every answer. All ten are written out below.

A bailaora mid-turn on stage in Seville, with the singers and guitarist seated behind her
Counting to ten
10 words · 20 seconds each · 8 of 10 to pass
What it meansHow to say it
Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

All 10 Spanish phrases in this lesson

UnoOO-noh
One

Becomes "un" before masculine nouns (un café) and "una" before feminine ones (una cerveza). When just counting, it is uno.

Dosdohs
Two

Never changes, no genders to worry about. Neither does any number from two upward.

Trestrehs
Three
CuatroKWAH-troh
Four
CincoTHEEN-koh
Five
Seissays
Six
SieteSYEH-teh
Seven
OchoOH-choh
Eight
NueveNWEH-beh
Nine
Diezdyeth
Ten

The tens build from here: veinte (twenty), treinta (thirty), cuarenta (forty). Fifteen is quince (KEEN-theh), a word you will hear a lot in prices.

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