Word
Leo la página veintiuno.
Meaning
I read page twenty-one.
Part of speech
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Pronunciation
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Questions & Answers about Leo la página veintiuno.
Why is veintiuno written as one word instead of veinte y uno?
In Spanish, numbers from 21 to 29 are always written as a single combined word. To do this, the final e in veinte changes to an i, and you attach the single digit right to it. That is why 21 is veintiuno, 22 is veintidós, and so on. For numbers 31 and higher, you will use separate words, like treinta y uno (thirty-one).
Since página is feminine, shouldn't it be la página veintiuna?
When a number is used as a label or an identifier (like a page number, a hotel room number, or a year), it stays in its default masculine form. You only change it to the feminine veintiuna when you are counting a quantity of feminine things, like saying Leo veintiuna páginas (I read twenty-one pages). Because this is "page number twenty-one", it stays veintiuno.
Why doesn't the sentence start with yo for "I"?
Why does página have an accent mark?