Learn Spanish (Spain): El restaurante tiene treinta mesas.

El restaurante tiene treinta mesas.

The restaurant has thirty tables.

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Questions & Answers about El restaurante tiene treinta mesas.

Is there an easy way to remember that treinta means thirty?

Yes! Most tens in Spanish are built from their single-digit number. The word for three is tres, and thirty is treinta. You will see this same pattern with other numbers in this lesson, like cuatro (four) becoming cuarenta (forty).

Because mesas is feminine, does treinta end in an a to match it?

That is actually just a coincidence! The numbers 30 through 90, like treinta, cuarenta, and cincuenta, always end in a. They never change their spelling to match the gender of the noun. If the restaurant had thirty masculine objects, like platos (plates), it would still be treinta platos.

Why is the verb spelled tiene and not tene?

Tiene belongs to the verb tener (to have). It is an irregular verb where the e in the middle changes to ie for most forms. Since we are talking about a single restaurant (an "it"), we use the tiene form.

How can I tell that restaurante is masculine (el) when it ends in an e?