📖LearnModule 2 · Lesson 13 of 30Basic User · CEFR A1, completedUnit 3 · No… and numbers to 100
Numbers 70 to 100
Module 2 of the free Spanish course (CEFR A1, completed), lesson 13 of 30: Setenta (70), ochenta (80), noventa (90), the same -enta ending, the same y pattern: setenta y uno. On this page: 7 words with their genders and respellings, the rule, a watch-out line and the audio — the study notes behind the workbook's QR.
The words
Spanish
English
Say it
setenta
seventy
seh-TEHN-tah
ochenta
eighty
oh-CHEHN-tah
noventa
ninety
noh-BEHN-tah
cien
one hundred
syehn
setenta y uno
seventy-one
seh-TEHN-tah ee OO-noh
ochenta y ocho
eighty-eight
oh-CHEHN-tah ee OH-choh
noventa y nueve
ninety-nine
noh-BEHN-tah ee NWEH-beh
Respellings follow the course’s say-it key; the stressed syllable is in capitals. Print this lesson’s flashcards (PDF) — the words on the front, the English and respelling on the back.
La regla · The rule
Setenta (70), ochenta (80), noventa (90) — the same -enta ending, the same y pattern: setenta y uno, ochenta y ocho, noventa y nueve. Spanish counts to a hundred with one rule and no surprises.
Y también · And also
One hundred exactly is cien. The moment anything follows it, it grows to ciento: ciento uno, ciento veinte. This module stops at cien; the hundreds arrive later, and they follow the pattern you already know.
Ojo · Watch out
100 on its own is cien: cien pesos, cien años. It becomes ciento only when more numbers follow: ciento diez. Never ciento pesos.
Do it now — on paper
Say all 7 words aloud twice from the respelling, then once from the Spanish spelling alone — begin with setenta.
Copy every word with its accents on paper; then cover the English column and write each meaning back from the Spanish.
Write the numbers from 70 to 100 in Spanish in a column, say each one, then read the column back down from the bottom.
This free course is the reading half. The writing half — write-in lessons, daily practice pages with built-in review, self-checks and a full answer key — is the companion workbook series, The Spanish Ladder: one workbook per module, fifteen in all, released band by band with the Basic band (Modules 1–5) first.
Keep these words
Turn this lesson’s words into flashcards, then space your reviews — the two habits the research behind our study guides backs hardest.