What's the difference between quantas and quantos?

Question

When would you use the terms?

Hi and welcome to the forum! - Nicole-B, Feb 2, 2012

Answer 1

Welcome to the forum

the spelling is not correct: cuántos, cuántas

That would be how many , masculine and feminine

lol, I keep messing those up, thank you very much - vt2430, Sep 13, 2010

Answer 2

Vt welcome to the forum

Heidita and Samdie have given you very accurate and clear answers to your question so I don't intend to replicate their responses but simply to point out that you have used the Portuguese spelling of the words..

I have just checked with my Portuguese dictionary and it confirmed what I thought true these words are the same/ equivalent of their Spanish counterparts and so have the same meaning in Portuguese.

Below you can see the difference in spelling between the languages

¿Cuántas/os ? (Spanish) = Quantas/os ? (Portuguese) = how much/ many?

¿Cuándo? (Spanish) = Quando? (Portuguese) = When?

The Portuguese (Brazilian) uses a 'Q' where the Spanish uses a 'C' The sound is similar but the Spanish sound is generally softer (I know since I have a Brazilian Girlfriend lol )

I hope that this helps:

feliz, you forgot the accent on cuántos - 00494d19, Sep 13, 2010

Thank you Heidi ...so i did ! :) - FELIZ77, Sep 13, 2010

Answer 3

The difference lies in the gender of the nouns that they modify.

Answer 4

en el idioma espanol, cuantos lo usamos para el genero masculino y cuantas para femenino. In the Spanish language, how we use it for and how the male gender for female

Answer 5

I am a man, does that mean i speak in the masculine form always?