Discover the numbers in English beyond one, two, three

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One, two, three… you probably know how to count up to more than a thousand in English, but do you know how to order half a kilo of tomatoes, say that you came nineteenth in the marathon or that your company has sold 1.27% more thailand phone number list year? In this post you will discover the secrets of English numbers.


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The high numbers
The first thing to keep in mind is that in English, groups of 100 are separated by a comma, and decimals are separated by a period, the opposite of Spanish, for example.

1,745,890.65

When we say large numbers in English, we must do so in groups of hundreds. Also, it should be noted that in British English you can put an and between hundreds and tens, but in American English, you cannot. For example:

796,450 – seven hundred (and) ninety-six thousand, four hundred (and) fifty

1,800,850 – One million eight hundred, eight hundred (and) fifty.

The damned billion: in almost all European countries – Spanish included – we call a billion a million, 1,000,000,000,000. The English billion , however, represents a much smaller amount, a thousand million (1,000,000,000), an amount that in Spanish is called a millardo. And what do they call a million million in English then? Well, trillion , always ahead!

If you are observant, you will have noticed that in English we always say million, thousand, hundred… we never add an “s” at the end: hundreds