📖LearnModule 8 · Lesson 20 of 30Independent User · CEFR B2, first halfUnit 4 · El medio ambiente y la sociedad
Las cifras y las tendencias
Module 8 of the free Spanish course (CEFR B2, first half), lesson 20 of 30: Numbers in an argued text come with their own small grammar. On this page: 9 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
la mayoría de la gente
most people
lah mah-yoh-REE-ah deh lah HEHN-teh
la mitad
the half
lah mee-TAHD
el tercio
a third
ehl TEHR-syoh
la cuarta parte
a quarter
lah KWAR-tah PAR-teh
el porcentaje
the percentage
ehl pohr-sehn-TAH-heh
uno de cada tres
one in three
OO-noh deh KAH-dah trehs
el habitante
the inhabitant
ehl ah-bee-TAHN-teh
la tendencia
the trend
lah tehn-DEHN-syah
la gente
the people
lah HEHN-teh
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
Numbers in an argued text come with their own small grammar. La mayoría de la gente piensa que… — most people, and the verb may be singular or plural; the singular is the safe written choice. La gente itself is always singular: la gente dice.
Y también · And also
La mitad is half, el tercio a third, la cuarta parte a quarter, and un porcentaje a percentage. Uno de cada tres habitantes — one inhabitant in three. That de cada is how Spanish writes a rate, and every B2 text about society uses it.
Ojo · Watch out
la gente takes a SINGULAR verb: la gente dice, never la gente dicen. And uno de cada tres is one in three: de cada, not en.
Do it now — on paper
Say all 9 words aloud twice from the respelling, then once from the Spanish spelling alone — begin with la mayoría de la gente.
Copy every word with its accents on paper; then cover the English column and write each meaning back from the Spanish.
Write two sentences of your own that get the watch-out line right, then the two practice pages of workbook lesson 20 in Module 8 are the written half of this page.
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.