Shorten Spanish Numbers?

Question

Is there a way to shorten Spanish numbers? For example:

1945

In english, no one says one-thousand, nine-hundred, forty-five because it takes 1,945 years to say that. Everyone just says nineteen, forty-five. In Spanish it's:

mil novecientos cuarenta y cinco

Mil-nob-eh-cien-tos-quar-enta-e-cin-co

which is a mouthful. Does Spanish have an abbreviated way to say numbers?

I don't think there is a short way in Spanish, but there should be so it is a good question. - Mardle, Mar 21, 2016

Answer 1

Yes we only say the two last digits if we are speaking about the nearest one hundred years from the past to the present day. But in this case you can't use the word "año" ., because if you say año, you must say all the cifre.

(All the numbers)0033------1492---1915--1916(only te last two numbers required)--1923---1933---2016(all numbers required)2017 ---2020.

En el AÑO treinta y tres Jesus tenía 33 años.(33ac)

En el treinta y tres nació Jesús el hijo de paquita(1933).

En ( en el año) mil cuatrocientos noventa y dos Colon descubrió las Américas

Mi abuelo nació en (el año) mil novecientos quince(1915)

Mi abuela nació en el veititres, y su prima en el diecisiete.(1923)(1917)

Mi abuela nació en el AÑO veintitres y su prima en el AÑO diecisiete (23ac) (17ac)wow tey are very very old.

Mi abuela nació en el AÑO mil novecientos veintitres.(1923)

¿a que estamos hoy? .A dieciocho del tres del dieciseis.

Las oposición se convocará en el dosmil diecisiete.

En el (año) dosmil veinte los coches volarán .

I know that my English is poor , but I think that with the help of the examples it is untherstable. (Helping examples would be correct?)

wow your grandfather will be a centenarian next year. Your English is good and your examples brilliant. with the help of the examples it is ubderstandable is fine. change cifre - Mardle, Mar 21, 2016

You always provide very good information, thankyou for this post. - 00cc0117, Mar 21, 2016

gracias - 000a35ff, Mar 21, 2016

Thanks for your post! - grantcurell, Mar 22, 2016

Answer 2

Astotxua's answer is very useful. For English learners we do the same eg in 66 England won the World cup! However, we only write the full year in formal writing otherwise we use numerals and we usually say the numbers in blocks of two. except for centuries eg 1900 = nineteen hundred 2000 = two thousand/the millenium and certainly in the UK we would say 1901 as nineteen oh one [I have learned to say zero for automated recordings!]

We also talk about decades like the sixties or eighties [los sesenta/los ochenta]

thanks mardle. - 000a35ff, Mar 21, 2016

thank you for such a well written reoly with good examples - Mardle, Mar 21, 2016