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Hay trescientos niños y cuatrocientos estudiantes en la escuela.

Hay trescientos niños y cuatrocientos estudiantes en la escuela.
There are three hundred children and four hundred students in the school.
From Lesson 53:Numbers 30 to 1000 (treinta, cien, mil)·Spanish (Latin America)

Questions & Answers about Hay trescientos niños y cuatrocientos estudiantes en la escuela.

Why do we say trescientos and cuatrocientos instead of just tres ciento and cuatro ciento?
In Spanish, multiples of a hundred from 200 to 900 are written as a single word combining the base number and the plural of a hundred (cientos). So, three hundred is trescientos and four hundred is cuatrocientos.
Do numbers like trescientos change if I am talking about girls?
Yes! Unlike numbers 1 through 99 (except for the number one), hundreds from 200 to 900 change to match the gender of the noun. If we were talking about girls, it would be trescientas niñas. Since niños (children or boys) is masculine, we use the masculine form trescientos.
Why is it cuatrocientos estudiantes if the word estudiantes ends in an 'e'?
The word estudiante is used for both male and female students. When talking about a mixed group of students, Spanish defaults to the masculine form, so we use the masculine number cuatrocientos. If you were talking about an all-female group of students, you would say cuatrocientas estudiantes.
I see Hay at the beginning. Does it mean 'they have'?
No, hay means 'there is' or 'there are'. Even though it comes from a verb that looks similar to 'have' in English, it is only used to say that something exists. Here, it means 'there are'.

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