Learn Spanish (Spain): Mi hermana tiene más libros que yo, más de cien. - My sister has more books than me, more than a hundred.

Mi hermana tiene más libros que yo, más de cien.

My sister has more books than me, more than a hundred.

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Questions & Answers about Mi hermana tiene más libros que yo, más de cien.

Why does this sentence use que yo instead of que mí?

When making comparisons in Spanish, you use the subject pronoun yo (I) after que, not the object pronoun mí (me). It helps to think of it as "more books than I (have)".

Why does the second part say más de cien instead of más que cien?

When "more than" or "less than" is followed directly by a number, Spanish uses de instead of que. You use más que for comparing two things (like you and your sister), but más de for amounts and numbers.

Why isn't there a word for "a" before cien?

In English, we say "a hundred" or "one hundred", but in Spanish, the word cien includes the "a" or "one" already. You never say un cien.

When do we use cien versus ciento?

You use cien for exactly 100, or when talking about the flat number "a hundred" as in this sentence. You only use ciento when adding smaller numbers to it, like ciento uno (101) or ciento diez (110).