📖LearnModule 1 · Lesson 12 of 30Basic User · CEFR A1, first halfUnit 3 · Counting and colors
Numbers 13 to 31
Module 1 of the free Spanish course (CEFR A1, first half), lesson 12 of 30: Spanish builds 16 to 19 by fusing ten-and: dieciséis, diecisiete, dieciocho, diecinueve. On this page: 12 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
trece
thirteen
TREH-seh
catorce
fourteen
kah-TOHR-seh
quince
fifteen
KEEN-seh
dieciséis
sixteen
dyeh-see-SAYS
diecisiete
seventeen
dyeh-see-SYEH-teh
dieciocho
eighteen
dyeh-see-OH-choh
diecinueve
nineteen
dyeh-see-NWEH-beh
veinte
twenty
BAYN-teh
veintiuno
twenty-one
bayn-tee-OO-noh
veintidós
twenty-two
bayn-tee-DOHS
treinta
thirty
TRAYN-tah
treinta y uno
thirty-one
TRAYN-tah ee OO-noh
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.
Hear the words
Each word is read twice — say it back in the gap. Computer-generated voice; credits on the course page.
La regla · The rule
Spanish builds 16 to 19 by fusing ten-and: dieciséis, diecisiete, dieciocho, diecinueve. Twenty-one to twenty-nine fuse the same way: veintiuno, veintidós.
Y también · And also
From thirty-one on, the pattern opens up: tens + y + ones — treinta y uno. With 1 to 31 you can say any date of any month, which is why this module stops there. Numbers to 100 arrive in Module 2.
Ojo · Watch out
16 to 29 are ONE word: dieciséis, veintidós. From 31 they are three: treinta y uno. And dieciséis, veintidós and veintitrés carry an accent mark.
Do it now — on paper
Say all 12 words aloud twice from the respelling, then once from the Spanish spelling alone — begin with trece.
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 13 to 31 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.