Word
Necesito cien dólares o doscientos pesos.
Meaning
I need one hundred dollars or two hundred pesos.
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Questions & Answers about Necesito cien dólares o doscientos pesos.
Why is there no word for "one" before cien?
In English we say "one hundred", but in Spanish, the word cien means "one hundred" all by itself. You do not add un before it when counting.
Could I say ciento dólares instead of cien dólares?
Why does doscientos end in -os?
The hundreds from 200 to 999 change their endings to match the gender of the noun they are counting. Because pesos is masculine, we use doscientos. If we were counting a feminine noun like monedas (coins), we would say doscientas monedas.
I remember dólar has an accent mark. Why does the plural dólares still have one?