Word
Ochenta es más que setenta.
Meaning
Eighty is more than seventy.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Lesson
Questions & Answers about Ochenta es más que setenta.
How do I pronounce Ochenta es más que setenta in Latin American Spanish?
A natural Latin American pronunciation is:
- ochenta = oh-CHEN-tah
- es = ess
- más = mahs
- que = keh
- setenta = seh-TEN-tah
Put together:
oh-CHEN-tah ess mahs keh seh-TEN-tah
The stress falls on -chen- in ochenta and -ten- in setenta.
Why is es used here?
Es is the he/she/it is form of ser.
Here, Spanish is treating ochenta and setenta as the numbers themselves, so the sentence uses a singular linking verb:
- Ochenta es...
- not Ochenta son...
This is like English Eighty is..., not Eighty are...
Why is it más que and not más de?