En el último blog, vimos los estados financieros y cómo entenderlos en inglés. Pero, ¿qué pasa si tiene que explicar los números a un colega? Por ejemplo, podría decir:
«Last year, our Total Assets were €1,069,790.»
¿Cómo se dice correctamente esa cifra? Vamos a ver cómo se dicen los números en inglés, pero antes, haga este test de números.
NUMBERS QUIZ – Test Yourself
Are the following statements true or false?
1 ‘0’ is often read as ‘nought’ in American English.
2 ‘0’ is normally read as ‘zero’ in American and British English in
scientific contexts and for temperatures.
3 James Bond 007 is read as `double oh seven’.
4 When talking about football results in British English we often
say ‘Real Madrid beat Arsenal three zip (3-0)’.
5 In tennis 30-0 is read as ‘thirty – love’.
6 In English 50,127 is read as ‘fifty point one two seven’.
7 40 is spelt ‘fourty’.
8 11.66 is read as ‘eleven point sixty-six’.
9 In British English the number 1,999 is read as ‘one thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine’.
10 The year 1999 is read as ‘nineteen ninety-nine’.
11 The year 2001 is read as ‘twenty one’.
12 A billion is 1,000,000,000.
1. false – nought is only in British English 2. true 3. true 4. False – zip is US English, it’s “nil” in the UK 5. true 6. False – remember that commas and decimals are opposite in English 7. false – there is no “u” 8.false – numbers after decimals are read individually in English. 9. true 10. true 11. false – from 2000 to 2009 we say “two thousand …” but from 2010 you can say twenty ten. 12. true – remember that “thousand million doesn’t exist in English
Cómo se dicen los números en inglés
Preste atención a cómo usamos el punto decimal en inglés, los números se leen individualmente, nunca juntos:
6.02 – six point oh two zero (or nought)
0.04 – point oh four zero
0.007 – point double oh seven
56.345 – fifty-six point three four five (NB: single numbers after the decimal!)
Con los números grandes se utilizan comas -y no puntos decimales-: Tenga en cuenta lo siguiente
12,076 twelve thousand and seventy-six
1,000,0000 one million vs 1,000,000,000 one billion
2,534,210 two million, five hundred and thirty-four thousand, two hundred and ten
Sumas de dinero:
€3.67 three euros sixty-seven OR three euro sixty-seven
$5 m five million dollars
Cómo se dicen los años:
1987 nineteen eighty-seven 2003 two thousand and three
2030 two thousand and thirty (or twenty thirty)
Póngase a prueba
Elija la(s) respuesta(s) correcta(s) sobre cómo decir los siguientes números. A veces es posible más de una forma. Practique cómo decir los números correctamente hasta que se sienta cómodo.
- 23.56
- twenty-three comma fifty-six
- twenty-three point fifty-six
- twenty-three point five six
- two three point five six
- 10,001
- one thousand and one
- ten thousand one
- ten thousand and one
- one triple oh one
- £63.30
- sixty-three pound and thirty pence
- sixty-three pounds and thirty pence
- sixty-three pounds and thirteen pence
- sixty-three pounds thirty
- 5,400,342
- five hundred thousand, four hundred, three hundred and forty-two
- five million, four hundred thousand, three hundred and twenty-four
- five million, four hundred thousand, three hundred and forty-two
- five billion, four hundred thousand, three hundred and twenty-four
- €45,638
- forty-five thousand, six hundred and thirty-eight euro
- forty-five thousand, six hundred and eighty-three euro
- forty-five thousand, six hundred and three eight euro
- forty-five, sixty-three, eight euro
- 1999
- nineteen ninety-nine
- nineteen hundred ninety-nine
- nineteen nine nine
- one nine nine nine
- 2003
- two thousand three
- two double oh three
- two thousand and three
- twenty oh three
1. c 2. b/c 3. b/d 4. c 5. a 6. a 7.a/c
Ahora bien, es de esperar que no tenga problemas con los números en inglés, por ejemplo.
“Our total liabilities in 2020 were €1,511,520, but this decreased to €1,069,790 in 2021.”
Sin embargo, si necesita más práctica apúntese a un curso hoy mismo. Hasta la próxima vez, siga practicando.
