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Quiero treinta y cinco euros.

Quiero treinta y cinco euros.
I want thirty-five euros.
From Lesson 41:Compound numbers up to 99 (veintiuno, treinta y uno)·Spanish (Spain)

Questions & Answers about Quiero treinta y cinco euros.

Why is "thirty-five" written as three separate words (treinta y cinco)?
In Spanish, numbers from 31 to 99 are built using three separate words: the tens (treinta), the word y (and), and the units (cinco). It translates literally as "thirty and five".
Does this "three-word" rule apply to the twenties as well, like 25?
No, and this is a common trap! While 35 is treinta y cinco, numbers in the twenties are mashed together into a single word, like veinticinco (25). The three-word pattern only begins at 31.
Why doesn't the sentence start with yo (I)?
The verb quiero already means "I want". In Spanish, the -o ending tells you that "I" am doing the action, so dropping the yo is perfectly natural and actually more common.
The dictionary says "to want" is querer. Why is there an "ie" in quiero?
Querer is what's called a "stem-changing" verb. When you change it to match the person doing the action (like "I"), the e in the middle of the word splits into ie. You will see this pattern in many common Spanish verbs!

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