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Sus doscientos dólares están en el banco.

Sus doscientos dólares están en el banco.
His two hundred dollars are in the bank.
From Lesson 53:Numbers 30 to 1000 (treinta, cien, mil)·Spanish (Latin America)

Questions & Answers about Sus doscientos dólares están en el banco.

Why is "two hundred" written as one word (doscientos) instead of two?
In Spanish, the hundreds from 200 to 900 are combined into a single word. You take the single digit and attach cientos (hundreds) to the end of it. So dos plus cientos becomes doscientos.
Would doscientos ever change to doscientas?
Yes! Unlike numbers below 200, the hundreds from 200 to 900 must match the gender of the noun they describe. Because dólares is a masculine noun, we use doscientos. If we were counting a feminine noun like libras (pounds), it would be doscientas libras.
If the translation is "His", why does the sentence use the plural Sus instead of Su?
In Spanish, possessive words like his, her, or your must match the thing being owned, not the person who owns it. Since there are multiple dollars (dólares), you must use the plural sus. If he only had one dollar in the bank, it would be su dólar.
Why does this sentence use están for "are" instead of son?
The verb estar (which becomes están for plural nouns like dollars) is used to talk about physical location. Because the sentence tells us exactly where the money is right now (in the bank), we must use a form of estar.

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