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The conjunction y "and" must be always used before the last cardinal number. Examples:

veinte y cinco,

noventa y siete,

dos mil trescientos cuarenta y tres,

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Ordinal Numbers.

twenty-five.
ninety-seven.

2343.

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When numeral adjectives are used with nouns of dimension, they should be followed by the proposition de.

Two yards in length.
Thirty feet high.

EXAMPLES.

Dos varas de largo.
Treinta pies de alto.

EXERCISE SEVENTH.-ON NUMERAL ADJECTIVES.

Five oxen and twenty-seven sheep. One thousand eight

oveja.

buey hundred and fifty-two. Forty-five houses in the village. A

casa

village.

city with two hundred and thirty-six thousand souls.

ciudad

alma.

Five

hundred and twenty-nine prisoners in the little colony. Three

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prisionero

colonia.

hundred and sixty-five days, five hours, forty-eight minutes,

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and forty-nine seconds in the year. Seven days in the week:

segundo

año.

semana

Monday, the first day; Tuesday, the second; Wednesday, the

Lunes

Martes

Miercoles

third; Thursday, the fourth; Friday, the fifth; Saturday, the

Jueves

Viernes

Sabado

sixth; and Sunday, the seventh. Eighty-four chapters in the

Domingo

capitulo

first volume, and nearly a thousand pages. George the Fourth,

tomo

casi

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pagina. Jorge

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successor to George the Third. Five families and thirty-seven

sucesor

familia

children. A score of people in the theatre. A plank six

niño.

gente

teatro.

tabla

inches thick. Nine hundred and seventy-one volumes in the pulgada grueso.

tomo

library. Six women and two men, with nine children. A

libreria.

muger

con

well eighty fathoms deep. The tenth of February. The Febrero.

pozo de

braza profundo.

card. num.

twentieth of May. Mayo.

Chapter the fifth. Volume the fifteenth.
Capitulo

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Tomo

Two dozen bottles of wine, and one dozen of brandy. Two

botella

vino

aguardiente. hundred and thirty-six pens in each box. A wall eight yards pluma cada caxa pared

vara

high. Two feet and a third. Forty-six horses in the market,

alto.

pie

caballo

mercado

nine cows and twenty-one calves. At thirty days' sight.

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I HAVE preferred placing the verb here, though by so doing I change the order adopted by the greater part of grammarians, for the pronouns which generally precede it in point of rank, can be better explained by and by, and we have now reached a point where the verb is absolutely necessary.

I intend, in this chapter, to conjugate the auxiliary haber, to have; and the active verb tener, to have or possess; giving you, at the same time, such explanations as may enable you to make a proper use of them.

There are but two auxiliaries or helping verbs in Spanish, haber, to have; and ser, to be; the English auxiliaries shall, will, do, &c., being expressed by changes in the verbs themselves: yet these auxiliaries, haber and ser, are so mixed up with two other verbs, tener and estar, that they will need great care to discriminate between them. I shall, therefore, beg your earnest attention whilst I explain their peculiarities, and points of similarity and difference.

As the personal pronouns yo, I; tu, thou; él, he; ella, she; nosotros, we; vosotros, you; and ellos, ellas, they; are not frequently employed with the verb, I have, except in the present tense, suppressed them in the conjugation; for as the verb itself changes with every person, there does not exist the same necessity as in English of marking each with the pronoun.

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