treinta cuarenta cincuenta sesenta setenta ochenta noventa cien ciento y primero (a) segundo (a) tercero (a) cuarto (a) quinto (a) sexto(a) septimo (a) octavo (a) noveno (a) decimo (a)

thirty forty fifty sixty seventy eighty ninety 100 (exactly) 100 and (for above 100) first second third fourth fifth sixth seventh eighth ninth tenth

TREEN-tah kwah-REHN-tah seen-KWEHN-tah seh-SEHN-tah seh-TEHN-tah oh-CHEN-tah noe-VEHN-tah SEE-ehn see-EHN-toe EE pree-MAY-roe seh-GOON-doe tare-SARE-oh KWAHR-toe KEEN-toe SAKES-toe SEH-tee-moe ok-TAH-voe noe-VAY-noe DEH-see-moe

A few notes on this list and list 1. For the number one, there are many things that can change. Uno drops the "o" at the end before masculine nouns. (un libro instead of uno libro), and changes the "o" into "a" before feminine nouns (una mesa instead of uno mesa). In order to make any number between the numbers on the list, you must simply put them together with the numbers from list 1 using the "y", which means "and". For example, forty-one is formed from "forty and one", or "cuarenta y uno". This is usually pronounced with the words running together (kwah-RANE-tee-OOH-noe), and is sometimes even written that way. (cuarentiuno) One hundred seems complicated, but it is simple if you follow a couple of rules. Technically, 100 is "ciento", but in actual use it gets shortened to "Cien". The rule is that "ciento" becomes "cien" in front of any noun, and since usually anything you are counting is a noun, it is always used in this form. When you get above 199, simply put the number of hundreds in front of "cientos" (the plural form of ciento) and you have it. For example, 200 is dos cientos, 300 is tres cientos, and so on and so on. One last trick, and this is the most complicated, is that the "hundreds" must agree in gender with the noun that they are counting. In this way, the 200 books (dos cientos libros) would become for a feminine noun like table(dos cientAS mesas).
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