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¿Cuándo utilizar “primer” y “primero”?
¿Por qué se dice primero en 'primero plato' y no primer como en 'primer numero'? ¿Cuál es la differencia? Estoy confundido
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Spanish words for couple, few, handful, several, etc
In English, there are various words to express a small quality of something:
a couple (two of something)
a few (a small number, maybe around 3-5)
a handful (another vague expression for a small ...
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Is “$5 pesos” proper form in Spanish?
Today I saw a bus stop advertisement that read
$5 pesos hacen la diferencia.
Is this proper form? In English, that would be incorrect and redundant. "$5 dollars" would read as "5 dollars ...
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Pronouncing years in Spanish
In English 1886 would be pronounced "eighteen-eighty six." In Spanish, is there something similar? Or do people outright say:
El año mil ochocientos ochenta y seis
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Single or multiple word names of numbers
Should numbers above 15 be spelled as a single word (diecisiete, veintidos, etc.) or multiple words (diez y siete, veinte y dos, etc). Does the Real Academia Española have a official opinion on the ...
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Is “la sétima” a correct word?
I am writing from Ybor City - Tampa, Florida's National Historic Landmark District. We have a main street which was awarded one of the 10 BEST Streets in America. It is 7th. Avenue. One man, Frank ...
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¿Cómo se pronuncia un número de siglo?
Cuando leo artículos de Wikipedia, o libros historicales, es muy común encontrar una frase como siglo [numeración romana]. Por ejemplo,
Aljedrez, tal como se conoce actualmente, surgió en Europa ...
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What is the rule for forming fractional numbers?
What is the rule for forming fractional numbers (half, quarter, tenth, twenty-second, etc.) in Spanish? The small numbers are easy to find in a dictionary (tercio, octavo, etc.), but how would you ...
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How are “first” and “second” books of the Bible pronounced?
The Bible has several books in multiple parts (e.g. 1 Corintios, 2 Pedro, 3 Juan). How are these books said out loud? For example, is 1 Pedro pronounced Primer de Pedro, Primero de Pedro, Primera de ...
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Plurals of numbers
Is there an easy way to translate the plurals of numbers? Some seem pretty straight forward. For instance two sixes → dos seises. But what about when the number is already plural, or when ...
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Usage of “millar” vs “millón”
First the context. There are two similar words that cannot be confused:
Millar → Conjunto de mil unidades. → Set of one thousand elements.
Millón ...
