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Él trabaja veintiocho o veintinueve horas a la semana.

Él trabaja veintiocho o veintinueve horas a la semana.
He works twenty-eight or twenty-nine hours a week.
From Lesson 52:Numbers 16 to 31 (dieciséis, veinte…)·Spanish (Latin America)

Breakdown of Él trabaja veintiocho o veintinueve horas a la semana.

él
he
trabajar
to work
a
to
la hora
the hour
la semana
the week
o
or
veintiocho
twenty-eight
veintinueve
twenty-nine

Questions & Answers about Él trabaja veintiocho o veintinueve horas a la semana.

How do you spell and form numbers like veintiocho and veintinueve?
In Spanish, numbers from 21 to 29 are written as a single word. You take veinte (twenty), change the last e to an i, and attach the single digit to the end. So, veinti + ocho makes veintiocho (twenty-eight), and veinti + nueve makes veintinueve (twenty-nine).
Do veintiocho and veintinueve change depending on the gender of the noun they describe?
No, they don't. While the number one changes to match gender (such as un día for one day, or una hora for one hour), numbers ending in eight and nine do not. You use veintiocho and veintinueve whether you are counting feminine nouns like horas or masculine nouns like días.
Why does the sentence use a la semana instead of translating "a week" word-for-word?
When talking about a rate or how often something happens (like hours "per" week or twice "a" week), Spanish uses the preposition a followed by the definite article (el or la). Since semana is feminine, "a week" or "per week" becomes a la semana.
Why does the word Él have an accent mark over the E?
The accent mark tells you that él is the pronoun meaning "he". Without the accent mark, el is the article meaning "the" (as in el tiempo for "the time"). The accent doesn't change how the word is pronounced; it is just a spelling tool to tell the two identical-sounding words apart.

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