‘ un libro’, ‘ un artículo’ etc.) And if it is feminine, we don’t need to change forms. Next, here are some examples of the number one behaving like a pronoun:Įnglish: How many countries have you lived in?Īs you can see with this last example, when we want to say ‘one’ and this represents a masculine noun, we need to remember to say ‘ uno’.īut, if we have a noun in our sentence, we need to drop the ‘o’ (e.g. We can only distinguish between ‘one’ and ‘a’ or ‘an’ in Spanish through context. ‘ una idea‘ could translate as ‘one idea’ or ‘an idea’. Note there aren’t different words for ‘one’ and ‘a’ in Spanish, e.g.
When we switch between these two options, similar to other Spanish words that describe quantity such as algún vs alguno, we need to decide between three forms.įirstly, here are a few examples of the number one behaving like an adjective:Įnglish: I have one brother and one sister.Įnglish: We only need one idea for the project.Įspañol: Solo necesitamos una idea para el proyecto. When we use Spanish numbers in a sentence, we can either use them like an adjective or a pronoun. So, what makes the Spanish number one so special? In addition, any number ending in one such as twenty-one (21), seventy-one (71), or two thousand four hundred and sixty-one (2,461) also has three forms. One is the most interesting number in Spanish because it has three forms, where most numbers have only one or two. Before we talk about all of the numbers in the Spanish language, we need to stop and talk about the number one (1).
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