Numbers Masculine or Feminine
Are numbers (ex. dos , diez) masculine words or feminine words?
3 Answers
As Ramona says, masculine as nouns (los números son masculinos, las letras son femeninas). Eg El tres es mi número de la suerte - Three (noun) is my lucky number.
But as Daniella points out, as adjectives they match gender with the noun they are describing. As well as those few spelling changes to keep an eye out for, articles will change: Las tres mujeres - The three (adjective) women.
The only numbers that have a gender change are
uno. When coming before a masculine singular noun, will change to "un" un hombre
una Use this before a feminine singular noun. "una" mujer
With words like twenty-one, thirty one etc. ---veintiún hombres, veintiuna mujeres.
"Some" Unos/unas.
"cientos/cientas. --- doscientos hombres. Trescientas mujeres.
This is about all there is to gender as far as numbers go.
All masculine. An easy way to remember this is by saying the date, la fecha.
The 9th of November, 2016 El nueve de Noviembre de 2016
Also, like Daniela wrote, some numbers can change genders depending on the noun
