Hi Emanuel
You are right. That's been fixed.
Gracias
Inma
The way we express "a hundred [things]", "a thousand [things]", "a million [things]" or "a billion [things]" in Spanish is slightly different to the English way.
Let's see some examples:
One hundred/one thousand
Look at how for both masculine and feminine nouns, the words "cien" and "mil" don't change at all, they are invariable. Also, notice how in Spanish we do not add the indefinite article "un" like you do in English. This is a very common mistake.
It'd be incorrect to say:
un cien pájaros
un mil sillas
However, with:
One million/one billion
Notice how here, the words "millón" and "billón" don't change either when referring to masculine or feminine nouns, they too are invariable. However, we do need "un" and also "de" before the noun.
A common mistake for English speakers is to omit the "de" as you don't need it in English.
This would be incorrrect:
Un millón hombres
Un billón mujeres
Hundreds/Thousands/Millions/Billions of [noun]
As you can see, there is only one form for both masculine and feminine plural.
Remember:
- cientos de [plural noun] → hundreds of [plural noun]
- miles de [plural noun] → thousands of [plural noun]
- millones de [plural noun] → millions of [plural noun]
- billones de [plural noun] → billions of [plural noun]
See also Using numbers + nouns
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EmanuelKwiziq Q&A regular contributor
There should be un billon de mujeres instead of hombres twice.
Asked 10 months ago
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