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LearnCraft Spanish

213: Cien vs ciento vs cientos

LearnCraft Spanish

Timothy Moser

Education, Language Learning

4.9635 Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Let's learn how to count to 999 in Spanish! We'll learn the words for one hundred, two hundred, three hundred, and so on. We'll also learn some other things you can do with the words cien, ciento, and cientos in Spanish.

Practice all of today's Spanish for free at LCSPodcast.com/213

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0:00.0

I Sientos and Sientos.

0:04.0

Join us on a rigorous step-by-step journey to fluency.

0:08.9

I'm Timothy, and this is LearnCraft Spanish.

0:14.3

Today we're going to learn how to say 100 in Spanish, which is going to blow up what we can do with numbers.

0:20.8

We already know how to count to 99 in Spanish, and is going to blow up what we can do with numbers.

0:28.6

We already know how to count to 99 in Spanish, and after today's episode, we'll be able to count all the way to 99.

0:36.2

The basic word for 100 is Cien, spelled C-I-E-N.

0:41.3

So, for example, there are a hundred boxes in her house.

0:52.2

But this number actually changes based on how it's used.

1:00.0

So if you're combining Sien with another number to make something greater than a hundred, you'll use Siento, spelled C-I-E-N-T-O. So for example, let's say we're talking about the number

1:07.9

105. In Spanish, this is ciento-synco.

1:15.3

Notice that the and disappears.

1:18.5

Try it yourself in this next example.

1:21.7

At the party, there were 150 people. In the fiesta

1:32.3

there were 150 persons.

1:37.3

In the fiesta,

1:38.3

there were 150 persons.

1:43.3

Okay, with just this, we can already count from one to one hundred ninety-nine.

1:50.5

Let's go ahead and get some practice with these numbers. In these examples in this quiz,

1:55.5

we've chosen random numbers between 100 and 100. Try to predict the Spanish.

2:03.6

There are 161 cars here.

2:11.6

There are 161 autos here. There are 161 autos here. Count to 110. Count to 110. Counts to 110. Counts to 110. This is $17770. This is $177. This is $177?

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