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Hay noventa sillas en el restaurante.

Hay noventa sillas en el restaurante.
There are ninety chairs in the restaurant.
From Lesson 53:Numbers 30 to 1000 (treinta, cien, mil)·Spanish (Latin America)

Questions & Answers about Hay noventa sillas en el restaurante.

Do I need to change noventa to match the feminine word sillas?
No. Unlike the number one (un / una) or the hundreds (like doscientos / doscientas), the "tens" numbers like noventa (ninety) never change their endings for gender. It is always noventa.
The word for nine is nueve. Why is ninety spelled noventa instead of "nueventa"?
The spelling changes slightly! Just like "five" becomes "fifty" in English, Spanish changes the vowel sound from nueve to make noventa. You will see a similar change with siete (seven) becoming setenta (seventy).
Does hay change to a plural form since there are multiple chairs?
No, hay is a very convenient word because it means both "there is" and "there are". It only has this one form, so you use the exact same word whether there is one chair or ninety.
The word restaurante ends in an "e". How do we know to use el instead of la?
Nouns ending in "e" can be either masculine or feminine, so you just have to memorize their gender as you learn them. Luckily, many common places ending in "e" are masculine, like el restaurante, el cine (the movie theater), and el parque (the park).

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