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El hotel tiene catorce cuartos, y yo necesito uno.

El hotel tiene catorce cuartos, y yo necesito uno.
The hotel has fourteen rooms, and I need one.
From Lesson 51:Numbers 0 to 15 (cero, uno, dos…)·Spanish (Latin America)

Breakdown of El hotel tiene catorce cuartos, y yo necesito uno.

yo
I
y
and
tener
to have
necesitar
to need
el cuarto
the room
el hotel
the hotel
uno
one
catorce
fourteen

Questions & Answers about El hotel tiene catorce cuartos, y yo necesito uno.

Is there a trick to remembering the numbers 11 through 15, like catorce?
Yes! In Spanish, the numbers 11 through 15 all follow a pattern where they end in -ce: once (11), doce (12), trece (13), catorce (14), and quince (15).
Wait, doesn't cuartos mean "four"?
It is very easy to mix these up! Cuatro means "four" (the number). Cuarto means "room" or "a quarter". Since we are talking about a hotel, catorce cuartos means "fourteen rooms".
Why does the sentence end with uno instead of un?
We use un when it comes directly before a masculine noun, like un cuarto (one room). But here, the noun is left out at the end of the sentence because it is already understood. When "one" stands completely by itself to replace the noun, we use uno.
Do I have to include yo before necesito?
No, you could just say y necesito uno. The ending of the verb (necesito) already tells us that "I" am doing the action. Including yo just adds a little extra emphasis or contrast, as if to say "the hotel has them, and I need one."

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