Word
Sus doscientos dólares están en el banco.
Meaning
His two hundred dollars are in the bank.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Sus doscientos dólares están en el banco.
en
in / on / at
estar
to be (location/state)
el banco
the bank
su
his/her/its/their/your (formal)
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?
Why does this sentence use están for "are" instead of son?