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Ellas tienen ochenta libros nuevos.

Ellas tienen ochenta libros nuevos.
They have eighty new books.
From Lesson 40:Counting by tens to 100 (treinta, cuarenta, cien)·Spanish (Spain)

Questions & Answers about Ellas tienen ochenta libros nuevos.

Does the word ochenta change its ending if the people or objects are feminine?
No, the tens from 30 to 90 never change to match gender. Whether you are talking about ochenta libros (masculine) or ochenta chicas (feminine), the number always stays ochenta. Only numbers ending in one (like 31) and the hundreds (like 200) change for gender.
How do we know to use ellas instead of ellos for the word they?
The pronoun ellas specifically means a group made up entirely of females. If the group was all males, or a mix of males and females, you would use ellos instead.
Why is it libros nuevos instead of nuevos libros?
In Spanish, describing words (adjectives) like nuevos usually come right after the thing they describe, which in this case is libros. Notice that because libros is masculine and plural, nuevos also ends in -os to match it perfectly.
Why is it tienen instead of tienen que?
The word tienen just means they have as in owning a physical thing, like books. You only add que right after a form of tener when you want to say someone has to do an action, like tienen que leer (they have to read).

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