There are a few things you need to be careful with: With tens and twenties, these words are written together like we saw previously and might show a few changes, but once we reach the thirties, they start being written separately, so it becomes a lot clearer. Do you notice that it’s always ten, or twenty, or thirty, followed by y and another number? This is the pattern we were talking about. Now that we’ve seen the hardest one, let’s look at the rest of the numbers higher than 16. We said this change happens in two more numbers: these are veintitrés (23) and veintiséis (26). Don’t worry too much about it for now we promise it’s not as hard as it sounds, but now is not the time. However, dieciséis is a longer word, so it does need one. Seis is a short word and only has one syllable, so it doesn’t require one. We won’t get too much into it right now, but basically, one of these rules is that words that end in vowel + s, like this one, that are stressed on the last syllable, always have an accent. The reason for this change is based on the rules of Spanish accents. E → É: And finally, the last change, is one that we’ll only see in a couple more numbers.That’s why, to make it look more aesthetic, it changes to i. The combination of the letters c + y is extremely uncommon in Spanish, and in fact, it only exists in a few foreign words such as cyan. In Spanish, the word for “and” is y, so if we wanted to put these words together, it would look like this: diec yséis. Y → I: The second change is another letter changing and it’s very similar to the previous one. ![]() In this case, what’s the letter that’s after c? That’s right, an i, which means it has the exact same sound as in diez. Moreover, for other reasons, we don’t use the letter z in front of those two vowels. In Spanish, the letter c in front of the vowels e and i has the exact same sound as z (which is like the “th” sound in “thanks”), while every other time it would have a k sound. ![]() Don’t let this confuse you, you’re better than that.
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