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El hospital tiene veinticinco médicos.

El hospital tiene veinticinco médicos.
The hospital has twenty-five doctors.
From Lesson 41:Compound numbers up to 99 (veintiuno, treinta y uno)·Spanish (Spain)

Breakdown of El hospital tiene veinticinco médicos.

el médico
the doctor
el hospital
the hospital
tener
to have
veinticinco
twenty-five

Questions & Answers about El hospital tiene veinticinco médicos.

How is the number veinticinco formed?
In Spanish, numbers from 21 to 29 are written as one single word. You take veinte (twenty), change the final e to an i, and attach the single digit. So, veinte + i + cinco becomes veinticinco.
Is hospital pronounced the same as it is in English?
Not quite! In Spanish, the letter h is always silent, so you pronounce the word starting with the vowel: os-pi-tal. Also, the spoken stress goes on the very last syllable, whereas in English it goes on the first.
Why do we use tiene here instead of another form of the verb to have?
Tiene is the he/she/it form of the verb tener (to have). Because el hospital is a single thing or place (an it), we use this third-person singular form.
Why does the word médicos have an accent mark?
Written accent marks tell us which syllable to stress when speaking. Words ending in s normally have the spoken stress on the second-to-last syllable. Since this word is actually pronounced with the stress on the third-to-last syllable (MÉ-di-cos), we must add a written accent mark to show that it breaks the standard rule.

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