hundreds and thousands of people

• hundreds and thousands of people

hundred ['hʌndrəd]

1 noun

cent m;

∎ one hundred and one cent un;

∎ two hundred deux cents;

∎ two hundred and one deux cent un;

∎ about a hundred, a hundred odd une centaine;

∎ in nineteen hundred en dix-neuf cents;

∎ in nineteen hundred and ten en dix-neuf cent dix;

∎ to be a hundred avoir cent ans;

∎ I'll never forget him (even) if I live to be a hundred même si je deviens centenaire, je ne l'oublierai jamais;

∎ the theatre seats five hundred la salle contient cinq cents places (assises);

∎ Mathematics in the hundred's place dans la colonne des centaines;

∎ give me $500 in hundreds donnez-moi 500 dollars en billets de cent;

∎ the temperature is in the hundreds today il fait plus de 30 aujourd'hui;

∎ in the seventeen hundreds au dix-septième siècle;

∎ hundreds of des centaines de;

∎ I've asked you hundreds of times! je te l'ai demandé cent fois!;

∎ hundreds and thousands of people des milliers de gens;

∎ they were dying in their hundreds or by the hundred ils mouraient par centaines

2 pronoun

cent;

∎ about a hundred une centaine;

∎ I need a hundred (of them) il m'en faut cent, j'en ai besoin de cent;

∎ he has a hundred (of them) il en a cent

3 adjective

cent;

∎ a hundred guests cent invités;

∎ six hundred pages six cents pages;

∎ on page a hundred (à la) page cent;

∎ about a hundred metres une centaine de mètres;

∎ they live at number a hundred ils habitent au numéro cent;

∎ to be a hundred years old avoir cent ans;

∎ one or a hundred percent cent pour cent;

∎ I'm a hundred percent sure j'en suis absolument certain;

∎ to be a hundred percent behind sb soutenir qn à fond;

∎ to give a or one hundred percent se donner à fond;

∎ I'm not feeling a hundred percent je ne me sens pas dans mon assiette;

∎ figurative I've got a hundred and one things to do j'ai mille choses à faire;

∎ if I've told you once, I've told you a hundred times! je te l'ai dit cent fois!

►► History the Hundred Days les Cent Jours mpl;

hundreds and thousands (confectionery) vermicelles mpl en sucre, nonpareilles fpl;

History the Hundred Years' War la guerre de Cent Ans

✾ Book 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' García Márquez 'Cent Ans de solitude'

1) hundert

2)

3)

1) (number) hundert

2) (symbol, written figure) Hundert, die; (hundred-pound etc. note) Hunderter, der

3) (indefinite amount) hundreds Hunderte Pl.

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1) ((plural hundred) the number 100: Ten times ten is a hundred; more than one/a hundred; There must be at least six hundred of them here.) das Hundert

2) (the figure 100.) die Hundert

3) (the age of 100: She's over a hundred; a man of a hundred.) das Hundert

4) ((plural hundred) a hundred pounds or dollars: I lost several hundred at the casino last night.) der Hunderter

1) (100 in number: six hundred people; a few hundred pounds.) hundert

2) (aged 100: He is a hundred today.) hundert

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I. n

<pl ->

(number) Hundert f

the chances are one in a \hundred that he'll live die Chancen stehen eins zu hundert, dass er überlebt

sixty out of a \hundred agree with the president sechzig von hundert stimmen dem Präsidenten zu

I'll bet you a \hundred to one my team will win ich wette hundert zu eins, dass meine Mannschaft gewinnt

two/three/eight \hundred zwei-/drei-/achthundert

this new car is selling by the \hundreds dieses Auto wird zu Hunderten verkauft

\hundreds and \hundreds Hunderte und aber Hunderte

\hundreds of cars/people/pounds Hunderte von Autos/Leuten/Pfund

<pl ->

to drive a \hundred hundert [o fam mit hundert Sachen] fahren

<pl ->

to be/turn a \hundred hundert Jahre alt sein/werden

to live to be a \hundred hundert Jahre alt werden

4. (with centuries)

the eighteen/fifteen/twelve \hundreds das achtzehnte/fünfzehnte/zwölfte Jahrhundert

II. adj attr, inv hundert

we've driven a \hundred miles in the last hour wir sind in der letzten Stunde [ein]hundert Meilen gefahren

a \hundred and one/five/nine [ein]hundert[und]eins/-fünf/-neun

\hundred and first/second/fifth hundert[und]erste(r, s)/-zweite(r, s)/-fünfte(r, s)

to feel a \hundred per cent fit sich akk hundertprozentig fit fühlen

to work a \hundred per cent hundertprozentig arbeiten

never in a \hundred years nie im Leben

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2. n

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hundred [ˈhʌndrəd; US auch -dərd]

A adj

1. hundert:

a (one) hundred (ein)hundert;

several hundred men mehrere hundert Mann

2. oft a hundred and one hunderterlei, zahllose

B s

1. Hundert n (Einheit):

hundreds and hundreds Hunderte und Aberhunderte;

by the hundred, by hundreds hundertweise, immer hundert auf einmal;

several hundred mehrere Hundert;

hundreds of thousands Hunderttausende;

hundreds of times hundertmal;

a great ( oder long) hundred hundertzwanzig

2. Hundert f (Zahl)

3. MATH Hunderter m

4. Br HIST Zent f (Unterbezirk einer Grafschaft)

5. US HIST Bezirk m, Kreis m (nur noch in Delaware)

6. hundreds and thousands GASTR Liebesperlen

h., H. abk

1. height H

2. hour ( hours pl) Std.; Uhr (bei Zeitangaben)

3. hundred

4. husband

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1) hundert

2)

3)

1) (number) hundert

2) (symbol, written figure) Hundert, die; (hundred-pound etc. note) Hunderter, der

3) (indefinite amount) hundreds Hunderte Pl.

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hundert adj.

{'hʌndrid}
I. n сто, стотица
nineteen HUNDRED 1900 (г.)
HUNDREDs of people стотици (хора)
in HUNDREDs по сто, със стотици
a HUNDRED and one things хиляда работи
HUNDRED to one голяма вероятност
HUNDRED percent напълно, изцяло
HUNDREDs разг. много, голям брой
great/long-HUNDRED сто и двадесет
HUNDREDs and thousand много дребни бонбончета (за украса на сладкиш)
II. n стара административна единица в Англия, околия

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{'h^ndrid} n сто; стотица; nineteen hundred 1900 (г.); hundreds of people(2) {'h^ndrid} n стара административна единица в Англия; окол

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сто; стотица;

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hundred[´hʌndrid] I. num сто; стотица; \hundreds of people стотици (хора); in \hundreds по сто; със стотици; one \hundred percent сто процента; стопроцентов, напълно; a \hundred and one things хиляда работи; not a \hundred miles from here разг. доста близо; \hundreds and thousands много дребни бонбончета; дропс; II. n стара административна единица в Англия, окръг.

f SPORT: (erste, zweite Bundesliga First, Second) Division

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f (Ger SPORT)

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f kein pl national league; FBALL German football [or soccer] league, ≈ Premier league [or division] BRIT

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Bundesliga f SPORT: (

erste, zweite Bundesliga First, Second) Division

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1) ((plural hundred) the number 100: Ten times ten is a hundred; more than one/a hundred; There must be at least six hundred of them here.) sto

2) (the figure 100.) stotica

3) (the age of 100: She's over a hundred; a man of a hundred.) sto let

4) ((plural hundred) a hundred pounds or dollars: I lost several hundred at the casino last night.) stotak

1) (100 in number: six hundred people; a few hundred pounds.) sto

2) (aged 100: He is a hundred today.) sto let

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to have a hundred things to do — imeti dela čez glavo

a hundred and one things — ogromno stvari

stotica; history okraj z lastnim sodiščem; množica, veliko število

hundreds and hundreds — na stotine

hundreds of — na stotine

hundreds and thousands — čokoladni ali sladkorni okraski za torte

long ( —ali great) hundred — stodvajset

n. e a. (pl. hundreds, hundred)

cento; centinaio: a (o one) hundred men, cento uomini; a hundred pounds, cento sterline; a hundred and twelve, centododici; two [three, four] hundred, duecento [trecento, quattrocento]; a few hundred soldiers, alcune centinaia di soldati; hundreds of people, centinaia di persone; in hundreds, a centinaia; There are a hundred of them, sono in cento; one in a hundred, uno su cento; a hundred-metre drop, un dislivello di cento metri

● the hundred-and-first, il centunesimo □ (alim.) hundreds and thousands, granella di zucchero multicolore; confettini multicolori □ a (o one) hundred per cent, al cento per cento; completamente: I'm not a hundred per cent sure, non sono sicuro al cento per cento □ (stor.) the Hundred Years War, la Guerra dei cent'anni.

   New business structure introduced in 2009, to encourage entrepreneurship in France. The system has proved even more successful than predicted, and hundreds of thousands of people signed up for the new status in the first six months. The great attraction and innovation of this system is its simplicity. In the past, setting up as a sole trader or self-employed in France was a very complex formality, involving registration with at least three different organisations (depending on the nature of the work), for tax, social security and health service benefits; it was also fiscally heavy, with high contributions to the various "caisses", bearing no relation at all to actual earnings during the first two years.

   The new "statut de l'autoentrepreneur" has done away with all this; signing up is a simple process, done on line, and those choosing this status have one single periodic payment to make, covering all their social security and health contribution charges, and even income tax. Payments are strictly based on actual earnings, so a self employed person who earned only 10 Euros in a poor month now pays his social security charge as a proportion of the sum actually earned. There are three contribution rates, depending on the nature of the activity, sales, services or professional consultancy.

   Anyone can sign up for this new status, which covers not only the self employed, but also those who have a job with an employer, but also wish to undertake entrepreneurial activities as a sideline.

   A secondary advantage of this new system has been to bring into the system people who previously did the odd job on the side here and there, but never declared these earnings, on account of the complexity and expense of the previous systems..

1. to undertake an initial action toward some goal

X сделал первый шаг - X took the first step.

2. to be the first to act in establishing or improving relations with another (may refer to making an effort to meet s.o., reconcile a conflict with s.o. etc)

X сделал первый шаг - X took the first step

• СДЕЛАТЬ ПЕРВЫЙ ШАГ (к чему)

[VP; subj: human; the verb may take the final position, otherwise fixed WO]

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1. to undertake an initial action toward some goal:

- X сделал первый шаг≈ X took the first step.

     ♦ "Я сам хотел добра людям и сделал бы сотни, тысячи добрых дел вместо одной этой глупости... Этою глупостью я хотел только поставить себя в независимое положение, первый шаг сделать... Но я, я и первого шага не выдержал, потому что я - подлец!"(Достоевский 3). "I myself wanted to do good to people and I'd have done hundreds and thousands of good deeds to make up for that one stupidity... By that stupidity I merely wanted to place myself in an independent position, to take the first step....But I - I couldn't even endure the first step, because I'm vile!" (3a).

2. to be the first to act in establishing or improving relations with another (may refer to making an effort to meet s.o., reconcile a conflict with s.o. etc):

- X сделал первый шаг≈ X took the first step;

- X made the first move.

     ♦ "Я очень хорошо понял, с первого взгляда, что тут дело плохо, и - что вы думаете? - решился было и глаз не подымать на неб. Но Авдотья Романовна сама сделала первый шаг..." (Достоевский 3). "I understood very well, at first glance, that things were bad here, and - what do you think? - I decided not even to raise my eyes to her. But Avdotya Romanovna herself took the first step..." (3c).

1 thousand, a thousand.

2 thousandth.

thousand.

dos mil two thousand

mil años/pesos a thousand years/pesos

mil cien one thousand one hundred

mil y una/uno (figurative) a thousand and one

mil y un detalles a hundred and one details

miles (de) thousands (of) (gran cantidad)

tengo mil cosas que hacer I've got loads of things to do;

thousand, a thousand.

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► adjetivo

1 thousand

2 (milésimo) thousandth

► nombre masculino

1 a thousand, one thousand

\

el año dos mil the year two thousand

las Mil y Una Noches the Arabian Nights

mil millones a thousand million, US billion Table 1 NOTA See also seis and sexto,-a/Table 1

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ADJ INV PRON SM a o one thousand

- a las mil

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adjetivo invariable/pronombre thousand

masculino (number) one thousand

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= thousand.

Ex. They have literally changed thousands of sexist job titles.

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* a las mil maravillas = marvellously [marvelously, -USA], famously, like a house on fire.

* cientos de miles = hundreds of thousands, tens of thousands.

* dar cien mil vueltas = beat + Nombre + hands down, win + hands down.

* darle cien mil vueltas a Alguien = knock + spots off + Nombre.

* decenas de miles = tens of thousands.

* durante miles de años = for aeons and aeons, for aeons.

* funcionar a las mil maravillas = work + a treat, work like + a charm.

* hace miles de años = aeons ago.

* ir a las mil maravillas = go + great guns, go from + strength to strength, grow from + strength to strength, be fine and dandy.

* llevarse a las mil maravillas con + Nombre = get on with + Nombre + swimmingly.

* llevarse a las mis maravillas = get along/on + like a house on fire.

* marchar a las mil maravillas = go + great guns, go from + strength to strength, grow from + strength to strength, be fine and dandy.

* miles = oodles.

* miles de = thousands of, myriad, many hundreds of.

* miles de años = aeon [eon], thousands of years.

* mil millones = billion.

* ponerse de mil colores = go + bright red.

* que no se rompe en mil pedazos = shatterproof.

* salir a las mil maravillas = work + a treat, come up + a treat, go down + a treat.

* una imagen vale más que mil palabras = a picture is worth more than ten thousand words.

* una imagen vale mil palabras = every picture tells a story.

* uno entre mil = one of a thousand.

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adjetivo invariable/pronombre thousand

masculino (number) one thousand

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thousand

mil quinientos pesos fifteen hundred pesos, one thousand five hundred pesos

un billete de mil a thousand peso/euro bill ( AmE) o ( BrE) note

20 mil millones de euros 20 billion euros ( AmE), 20 thousand million euros ( BrE)

el año mil the year one thousand

Las mil y una noches ( Lit) the Arabian Nights

se lo he dicho una y mil veces I've told him a thousand times

tengo mil cosas que hacer I have a thousand and one things to do

a las mil quinientas or a las mil y una very late

estar/ponerse a mil ( Col fam) (nervioso) to be/get uptight ( colloq) (furioso) to be/get hopping mad ( colloq)

[ Vocabulary notes (Spanish) ]

(number) one thousand

el dos por mil de la población two per thousand of the population, zero o nought point two percent of the population

se lo he dicho miles de veces I've told him hundreds o thousands of times

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◊ mil quinientos pesos fifteen hundred pesos, one thousand five hundred pesos;

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mil núm

thousand;

dos mil two thousand;

mil pesos a thousand pesos;

miles de dólares thousands of dollars;

mil cien one thousand one hundred;

miles (de) [gran cantidad] thousands (of);

tengo mil cosas que hacer I've got loads of things to do;

a mil: estar a mil to be rushed off one's feet;

ponerse a mil to go flat out;

mil y una o [m5] uno a thousand and one;

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I adj thousand

II m thousand;

a miles by the thousands

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mil adj

: thousand

mil nm

: one thousand, a thousand

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mil num thousand

a or one hundred.

ciento cincuenta a o one hundred and fifty

cientos de hundreds of

por ciento percent

darle ciento y raya a alguien (informal figurative) to run rings around somebody

eran ciento y la madre (informal figurative) everybody and his dog was there;

hundred.

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► adjetivo

1 one hundred, a hundred

■ ciento ocho one hundred and eight

► nombre masculino

1 (número) hundred

2 un ciento (centena) about a hundred

■ tenemos varios cientos de ovejas we have several hundred sheep

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por ciento per cent

■ cuarenta por ciento forty per cent

por cientos in hundreds, by the hundred Table 1 NOTA See also cien/Table 1

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ADJ PRON a hundred, one hundred

2. SM

1) a hundred, one hundred

- dar ciento y raya a algn

2)

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adjetivo/pronombre (delante de otro número) a/one hundred

a) ( número)

b)

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adjetivo/pronombre (delante de otro número) a/one hundred

a) ( número)

b)

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[ Vocabulary notes (Spanish) ] a/one hundred

ciento dos a hundred and two

ciento cincuenta mil a/one hundred and fifty thousand

para ejemplos ver tb quinientos¹ (↑ quinientos (1))

1 [ Vocabulary notes (Spanish) ]

(número): cientos de libros hundreds of books

cientos de miles de dólares hundreds of thousands of dollars

a cientos: vinieron a cientos a verlo they came to see him in the ( AmE) o ( BrE) in their hundreds

(el) ciento y la madre ( Esp fam): se juntaron allí el ciento y la madre a whole crowd of people met up there, everyone and his brother was there ( AmE), the world and his wife were there ( BrE)

para ejemplos ver quinientos² (↑ quinientos (2))

2 [ Vocabulary notes (Spanish) ]

por ciento percent

el 10% de 9.300 10% of 9,300

un descuento del 20% a 20% discount

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◊ ciento dos a/one hundred and two;

a) ( número):

◊ cientos de libros hundreds of books;

◊ por ciento percent;

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ciento núm

a o one hundred;

ciento cincuenta a o one hundred and fifty;

cientos de hundreds of;

por ciento percent;

darle ciento y raya a alguien to run rings around sb;

eran ciento y la madre everybody and his dog o the world and his wife was there;

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1 a o

one hundred;

cientos de hundreds of;

ciento y la madre fam the world and his wife fam

el cinco por ciento five percent;

cien por ciento one hundred per cent, totally

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ciento adj, (used in compound numbers) : one hundred

ciento uno: one hundred and one

ciento nm

1) : hundred, group of a hundred

por ciento : percent

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ciento num a hundred / one hundred

1 one-hundred, hundred, a hundred.

2 one-hundredth.

a or one hundred.

cien mil a o one hundred thousand

por cien percent

cien por cien a hundred percent;

hundred, a hundred.

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► adjetivo (Used only before plural nouns)

1 one hundred, a hundred

■ cien libras one hundred pounds

► nombre masculino

1 one hundred, a hundred

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cien por cien one hundred per cent

■ si estás segura al cien por cien if you're one hundred per cent sure

ponerse a cien familiar to blow one's top, get all worked up Table 1 NOTA see also ciento and seis/Table 1

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ADJ, PRON [antes de s, apócope de ciento] a hundred, one hundred

- estar hasta el cien

- me pone a cien

** SM bog **, lavatory, john (EEUU) *

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adjetivo invariable/pronombre a/one hundred

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= hundred, hundred, one hundred.

Ex. There seems little point in hundreds of cataloguers in separate locations wading through cataloguing codes and classification schemes in order to create a variety of catalogue records for the same work.

Ex. There seems little point in hundreds of cataloguers in separate locations wading through cataloguing codes and classification schemes in order to create a variety of catalogue records for the same work.

Ex. It features elements of many of the trends in classification theory and practice over the past one hundred years.

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* cien por cien = one hundred percent.

* cientos = oodles, scores.

* cientos de = hundreds of, yards of.

* cientos de miles = hundreds of thousands, tens of thousands.

* cientos de millones = hundred million.

* cien veces = hundred-fold.

* dar cien mil vueltas = beat + Nombre + hands down, win + hands down.

* darle cien mil vueltas a Alguien = knock + spots off + Nombre.

* de menos del 10 por ciento = single digit, single figure.

* en tanto por ciento = percentage-wise.

* más del 10 por ciento = double digit, double figure.

* más vale pájaro en mano que ciento volando = a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.

* Número + por ciento = by + factor of + Número, Número + percentage points.

* por ciento = per cent [percent] (%).

* por debajo del 10 por ciento = single digit, single figure.

* por encima del 10 por ciento = double digit.

* tanto por ciento = percentage.

* tienda de todo a cien = dollar store.

* veinte por ciento = two-tenths.

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adjetivo invariable/pronombre a/one hundred

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a/one hundred

cien euros a/one hundred euros

cien mil a/one hundred thousand

es cien por cien algodón it's pure cotton, it's a hundred percent cotton

no estoy convencido al cien por cien I'm not totally convinced

poner a algn a cien ( Esp); to get sb annoyed

ver tb ciento¹ (↑ ciento (1))

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el cien one hundred, number one hundred

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3ª persona plural (ellos/ellas/ustedes) presente subjuntivo

3ª persona plural (ellos/ellas/ustedes) imperativo

◊ cien mil a/one hundred thousand;

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cien núm

a o one hundred;

cien mil a o one hundred thousand;

por cien percent;

cien por cien a hundred percent;

poner a cien alguien: esa musiquilla me está poniendo a cien that tune's getting on my nerves;

dar cien mil vueltas a algo/alguien: mi moto le da cien vueltas a la tuya my motorbike's miles better than yours;

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adj a o

one hundred;

poner a alguien a cien fam irritate s.o., get on s.o.’s nerves;

cien por cien fig fam a hundred per cent, totally

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cien adj

1) : a hundred, hundred

las primeras cien páginas: the first hundred pages

cien por cien or

cien por ciento : a hundred percent, through and through, wholeheartedly

cien nm

: one hundred

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cien num a hundred / one hundred

0 zéro*

1 un†

2 deux

3 trois

4 quatre

5 cinq

6 six

7 sept

8 huit

9 neuf

10 dix

11 onze

12 douze

13 treize

14 quatorze

15 quinze

16 seize

17 dix-sept

18 dix-huit

19 dix-neuf

20 vingt

21 vingt et un

22 vingt-deux

30 trente

31 trente et un

32 trente-deux

40 quarante

50 cinquante

60 soixante

70 soixante-dix

septante (in Belgium, Canada, Switzerland etc.)

71 soixante et onze

septante et un ( etc)

72 soixante-douze

73 soixante-treize

74 soixante-quatorze

75 soixante-quinze

76 soixante-seize

77 soixante-dix-sept

78 soixante-dix-nuit

79 soixante-dix-neuf

80 quatre-vingts‡

81 quatre-vingt-un§

82 quatre-vingt-deux

90 quatre-vingt-dix ; nonante (in Belgium, Canada, Switzerland, etc)

91 quatre-vingt-onze ; nonante et un

92 quatre-vingt-douze ; nonante-deux ( etc.)

99 quatre-vingt-dix-neuf

100 cent

101 cent un†

102 cent deux

110 cent dix

111 cent onze

112 cent douze

187 cent quatre-vingt-sept

200 deux cents

250 deux cent|| cinquante

300 trois cents

1000 || mille

1001 mille un†

1002 mille deux

1020 mille vingt

1200 mille** deux cents

2000 deux mille††

10000 dix mille

10200 dix mille deux cents

100000 cent mille

102000 cent deux mille

1000000 un million‡‡

1264932 un million deux cent soixante-quatre mille neuf cent trente-deux

1000000000 un milliard‡‡

1000000000000 un billion‡‡

* In English 0 may be called nought, zero or even nothing ; French is always zéro ; a nought = un zéro.

† Note that one is une in French when it agrees with a feminine noun, so un crayon but une table, une des tables, vingt et une tables, combien de tables? - il y en a une seule etc.

‡ Also huitante in Switzerland. Note that when 80 is used as a page number it has no s, e.g. page eighty = page quatre-vingt.

§ Note that vingt has no s when it is in the middle of a number. The only exception to this rule is when quatre-vingts is followed by millions, milliards or billions, e.g. quatre-vingts millions, quatre-vingts billions etc.

Note that cent does not take an s when it is in the middle of a number. The only exception to this rule is when it is followed by millions, milliards or billions, e.g. trois cents millions, six cents billions etc. It has a normal plural when it modifies other nouns, e.g. 200 inhabitants = deux cents habitants.

|| Note that figures in French are set out differently ; where English would have a comma, French has simply a space. It is also possible in French to use a full stop (period) here, e.g. 1.000. French, like English, writes dates without any separation between thousands and hundreds, e.g. in 1995 = en 1995.

** When such a figure refers to a date, the spelling mil is preferred to mille, i.e. en 1200 = en mil deux cents. Note however the exceptions: when the year is a round number of thousands, the spelling is always mille, so en l’an mille, en l’an deux mille etc.

†† Mille is invariable ; it never takes an s.

‡‡ Note that the French words million, milliard and billion are nouns, and when written out in full they take de before another noun, e.g. a million inhabitants is un million d’habitants, a billion francs is un billion de francs. However, when written in figures, 1,000,000 inhabitants is 1000000 habitants, but is still spoken as un million d’habitants. When million etc. is part of a complex number, de is not used before the nouns, e.g. 6,000,210 people = six millions deux cent dix personnes.

Note the use of en in the following examples:

= il y en a six

= j’en ai cent

En must be used when the thing you are talking about is not expressed (the French says literally there of them are six, I of them have a hundred etc.). However, en is not needed when the object is specified:

= il y a six pommes

When you want to say about…, remember the French ending -aine:

= une dizaine

= une dizaine de livres

= une quinzaine

= une quinzaine de personnes

= une vingtaine

= une vingtaine d’heures

Similarly une trentaine, une quarantaine, une cinquantaine, une soixantaine and une centaine ( and une douzaine means a dozen). For other numbers, use environ (about):

= environ trente-cinq

= environ trente-cinq francs

= environ quatre mille

= environ quatre mille pages

Environ can be used with any number: environ dix, environ quinze etc. are as good as une dizaine, une quinzaine etc.

Note the use of centaines and milliers to express approximate quantities:

= des centaines de livres

= j’en ai des centaines

= des centaines et des centaines de poissons

= j’en ai des milliers

= des milliers de livres

= des milliers et des milliers

= des millions et des millions

= les nombres jusqu’à dix

= compter jusqu’à dix

= presque dix

= moins de dix

= plus de dix

= tous les dix

= les dix garçons

= mes dix dernières livres

= les douze prochaines semaines

= les deux autres

= les quatre derniers

0,25 zéro virgule vingt-cinq

0,05 zéro virgule zéro cinq

0,75 zéro virgule soixante-quinze

3,45 trois virgule quarante-cinq

8,195 huit virgule cent quatre-vingt-quinze

9,1567 neuf virgule quinze cent soixante-sept

or neuf virgule mille cinq cent soixante-sept

9,3456 neuf virgule trois mille quatre cent cinquante-six

25% vingt-cinq pour cent

50% cinquante pour cent

100% cent pour cent

200% deux cents pour cent

365% troix cent soixante-cinq pour cent

4,25% quatre virgule vingt-cinq pour cent

1st 1er‡ premier ( feminine première)

2nd 2e second or deuxième

3rd 3e troisième

4th 4e quatrième

5th 5e cinquième

6th 6e sixième

7th 7e septième

8th 8e huitième

9th 9e neuvième

10th 10e dixième

11th 11e onzième

12th 12e douzième

13th 13e treizième

14th 14e quatorzième

15th 15e quinzième

16th 16e seizième

17th 17e dix-septième

18th 18e dix-huitième

19th 19e dix-neuvième

20th 20e vingtième

21st 21e vingt et unième

22nd 22e vingt-deuxième

23rd 23e vingt-troisième

24th 24e vingt-quatrième

25th 25e vingt-cinquième

30th 30e trentième

31st 31e trente et unième

40th 40e quarantième

50th 50e cinquantième

60th 60e soixantième

70th 70e soixante-dixième or septantième (in Belgium, Canada, Switzerland etc.)

71st 71e soixante et onzième or septante et unième (etc.)

72nd 72e soixante-douzième

73rd 73e soixante-treizième

74th 74e soixante-quatorzième

75th 75e soixante-quinzième

76th 76e soixante-seizième

77th 77e soixante-dix-septième

78th 78e soixante-dix-huitième

79th 79e soixante-dix-neuvième

80th 80e quatre-vingtième¶

81st 81e quatre-vingt-unième

90th 90e quatre-vingt-dixième or nonantième (in Belgium, Canada, Switzerland etc.)

91st 91e quatre-vingt-onzième, or nonante et unième (etc.)

99th 99e quatre-vingt-dix-neuvième

100th 100e centième

101st 101e cent et unième

102nd 102e cent-deuxième

196th 196e cent quatre-vingt-seizième

200th 200e deux centième

300th 300e trois centième

400th 400e quatre centième

1,000th 1000e millième

2,000th 2000e deux millième

1,000,000th 1000000e millionième

= le premier (or la première, or les premiers mpl or les premières fpl)

= le second (or la seconde etc.)

= les trois premiers or les trois premières

= le troisième pays le plus riche du monde

* Note that half, when not a fraction, is translated by the noun moitié or the adjective demi ; see the dictionary entry.

† Note the use of les and d’entre when these fractions are used about a group of people or things: two-thirds of them = les deux tiers d’entre eux.

‡ This is the masculine form ; the feminine is 1re and the plural 1ers (m) or 1res (f).

§ All the ordinal numbers in French behave like ordinary adjectives and take normal plural endings where appropriate.

¶ Also huitantième in Switzerland.

1) ((plural hundred) the number 100: Ten times ten is a hundred; more than one/a hundred; There must be at least six hundred of them here.) cien

2) (the figure 100.) cien

3) (the age of 100: She's over a hundred; a man of a hundred.) cien años

4) ((plural hundred) a hundred pounds or dollars: I lost several hundred at the casino last night.) cientos (de)

1) (100 in number: six hundred people; a few hundred pounds.) cientos

2) (aged 100: He is a hundred today.) cien años, centenario

•

- hundred-

hundred num

1. cien / ciento

2. centenar

tr['hʌndrəd]

noun

1 cien

■ a hundred volunteers cien voluntarios

■ a hundred and ten kilos ciento diez kilos

■ five hundred years ago hace quinientos años

■ it costs two hundred euros cuesta doscientas euros

■ a hundred and fifty cars ciento cincuenta coches

■ in the eighteen hundreds en el siglo diecinueve

■ he lived to be a hundred llegó a los cien años

plural noun hundreds

1 (many) centenares nombre masculino plural, cientos nombre masculino plural

■ there were hundreds of cyclists había centenares de ciclistas

■ there are hundreds of ways to save money hay cientos de maneras de ahorrar dinero

\

a hundred per cent (literally) ciento por ciento 2 (figuratively) totalmente

■ a hundred per cent of the votes have been counted el ciento por ciento de los votos han sido escrutados

■ I agree with you a hundred per cent estoy totalmente de acuerdo contigo

hundred ['hʌndrəd] adj

: cien, ciento

hundred n, pl - dreds or - dred : ciento m

• cien (to) adj.

• centena s.f.

• centenar s.m.

• cien s.m.

noun cien m

1. N

1)

2) (=figure) ciento m

3) (=large number)

* * *

noun cien m

(pl. -ir), f. thousand.

* * *

f.; sérhverja þúsund, Stj. 298; á þúsund (dat.), Sks. 705; tvær, þrjár … þúsundir, 623. 53: in mod. usage it is mostly neut. (influenced by Latin?), but also fem. It is spelt þús-hund, Barl. 53; þús-hundum, Fms. vi. 409 (v. l.), Geisli 49; another form þús-hundrað (q. v.) is freq., esp. in Stj., Barl.; this double form -hund and -hundrað answers to the equally double form of ‘hundred,’ see p. 292, and is a proof that þúsund is a compound word, the latter part of which is ‘hund’ or ‘hundred;’ the etymology of the former part ‘þús’ is less certain; it is, we believe, akin to þysja, þyss, þaus-nir (a lost strong verb þúsa, þaus, þusu); þúsund would thus literally mean a swarm of hundreds: [in Goth. the gender varies, þûsundi, pl. þusundjos = χίλιοι, or þusundja, neut.; A. S. þûsend; Engl. thousand; O. H. G. dusunta; Germ. tausend, qs. dausend; Swed. tusende and tusen; Dan. tusinde; Dutch tuysend: this word is also common to the Slavon. languages: again, the Lapp, duhat and Finn. tuhat are no doubt borrowed from the Slavon. or Scandin.; the Gr., Lat., and Sansk. use other words]—a thousand.

B. There is little doubt that with the ancient heathen Scandinavians (and perhaps all Teutons), before their contact with the civilised southern people, the notion of numbers was limited, and that their thousand was not a definite number, but a vague term, denoting a swarm, crowd, host (cp. the Gr. μυρίοι): in ancient lays it occurs thrice (Hkv., Em., Fas. i. 502), but indefinitely; hvat þrym er þar sem þúsund bifisk eðr mengi til mikit, what a din is there as if a thousand were shaking, or an over-mickle multitude, Em. 2; sjau þúsundir, Hkv. 1. 49, literally = seven thousands, but in fact meaning seven hosts of men.

2. the dat. pl. þúsundum is, like huudruðum, used adverbially = by thousands, in countless numbers, Fms. vi. 409 (in a verse), Geisli 49.

3. in the ancient popular literature, uninfluenced by southern writers, ‘þúsund,’ as a definite number, occurs, we think, not half-a-dozen times. As the multiple of ten duodecimal hundreds, ere the decimal hundred was adopted, ‘þnsund’ would mean twelve decimal hundreds; and such is its use in the Sverris Saga, Fms. viii. 40, where one vellum says ‘tvær þúsundir,’ whilst the others, by a more idiomatic phrase, call it ‘twenty hundreds.’

II. in ecclesiastical writers, and in annals influenced by the Latin and the like, it is frequent enough; tíu þúsundir, fjórtán þúsundir, Fms. i. 107, 108 (annalistic records); fimm þúsundir, xi. 386, Al. 111; tíu þúsundum, Sks. 705; tíu þúsundum sinna hundrað þúsunda, Hom.; þúsund þúsunda, a thousand of thousands, i. e. a million, (mod.); hundrað þúsundir rasta ok átta tigir þúsunda, … hundrað þúsund mílna, Fb. i. 31 (in the legend of Eric the Far-traveller and Paradise, taken from some church-legend); fjórar þúsundir, Þiðr. 234: or of the years of the world, sex þúsundir vetra, Fs. 197; sjau þúsundir vetra, Landn. 34.

C. REMARKS.—The popular way of counting high numbers was not by thousands, but by tens (decades) and duodecimal hundreds as factors; thus ten … twenty hundreds, and then going on three, four, five, six … tens of hundreds (a ‘ten of hundreds’ being = 1200). The following references may illustrate this—tíu hundruð, ellefu hundruð, tólf hundruð, þrettán hundruð, fimtán hundruð …, Íb. 17, Ó. H. 119, 201, Fms. vii. 295, xi. 383, 385. From twenty and upwards—tuttugu hundrað manna, twenty hundreds of men, Fms. vii. 324, viii. 40; hálfr þriðitugr hundraða skipa, two tens and a half hundreds of ships, i. e. twenty-five hundreds, Fas. i. 378; þrjá tigu hundraða manna, three tens of hundreds of men, Fms. viii. 311; var skorat manntal, hafði hann meirr enn þrjá tigu hundraða manna, vii. 204; þrír tigir hundraða, D. N. v. 18; user fjorir tigir hundraða manna, nearly four tens of hundreds of men, Fms. vii. 275; á fimta tigi hundraða, on the fifth ten of hundreds, i. e. from four to five tens of hundreds, viii. 321; sex tigir hundraða, six tens of hundreds, 311, xi. 390; sex tigu hundraða manna, Fb. ii. 518, D. I. i. 350,—all odd amounts being neglected. The highest number recorded as actually reckoned in this way is ‘six tens of hundreds’ (fimtán tigir hundraða, fifteen tens of hundreds, Fms. viii. 321, v. l., is a scribe’s error): it is probable that no reckoning exceeded twelve tens of hundreds. All high multiples were unintelligible to the ancients; the number of the Einherjar in Walhalla is in the old lay Gm. thus expressed,—there are ‘five hundred doors in Walhalla, and five tens beside (the ‘five tens’ are, by the way, merely added for alliteration’s sake), and eight hundred Einherjar will walk out of each door when they go out to fight the Wolf’ (on the Day of final Doom). There seems to have been some dim exaggerated notion of a definite thousand in an ancient lay, only preserved in a half alliterative prose paraphrase, Fas. i. 502, where a mythical host is given thus,—there were thirty-three phalanxes, each of five ‘thousand,’ each thousand of thirteen hundreds, each hundred four times counted. The armies in the battle of Brawalla, the greatest of the mythical age, are given, not in numbers, but by the space the ranks occupied, Skjöld. S. ch. 8. This resembles the story in Ó. H. ch. 59, of the two young brothers, king’s sons: when asked what they would like to have most of, the one said: ‘Cows.’ ‘And how many?’ ‘As many,’ said he, ‘as could stand packed in a row round the lake (Mjösen in Norway) and drink.’ ‘But you?’ they asked the other boy: ‘House-carles’ (soldiers), said he. ‘And how many?’ ‘As many,’ said he, ‘as would in one meal eat up all my brother’s cows.’ Add also the tale of the King and the Giant, and the number of the giant’s house-carles, Maurer’s Volksagen 306. No less elementary was the rule for division and fractions, of which a remarkable instance is preserved in an ancient Icelandic deed, called Spákonu-arfr, published in D. I. i. 305. See also the words tigr, hundrað, skor, skora, and the remarks in Gramm. p. xix. The Homeric numeration, as set forth in Mr. Gladstone’s Homeric Studies, vol. iii, p. 425 sqq., is highly interesting, and bears a striking resemblance to that of the ancient Scandinavians. We may notice that in Iceland land and property are still divided into hundreds (hundreds of ells = 120), see hundrað B; in this case a thousand is never used, but units and hundreds of hundreds as factors, thus, sex tögu hundraða, in Reykh. Máld, (a deed of the 12th century), and so still in mod. usage; a wealthy man of the 15th century is said to have bequeathed to his daughters in land, ‘tólf hundruð hundraða ok ellefu-tíu og tvau hundruð betr, en í lausafé fimm hundruð hundraða,’ i. e. twelve hundreds of hundreds and ‘eleventy’ and two hundreds, and in movables five hundreds of hundreds, Feðga-æfi 16 (by the learned Bogi Benidiktsson of Staðarfell in Iceland, A. D. 1771–1849); sjau hundruð hundraða og þrjátigi hundruð betr, 21; hann eptir-lét börnum sínum fjármuni upp á níu hundruð hundraða, 22,—a proof that in very remote times, when this valuation of land first took place, ‘thousand’ was still unknown as a definite number.

0 nought (GB)

zero (US)*

1 one

2 two

3 three

4 four

5 five

6 six

7 seven

8 eight

9 nine

10 ten

11 eleven

12 twelve

13 thirteen

14 fourteen

15 fifteen

16 sixteen

17 seventeen

18 eighteen

19 nineteen

20 twenty

21 twenty-one

22 twenty-two

30 thirty

31 thirty-one

32 thirty-two

40 forty†

50 fifty

60 sixty

70 seventy

73 seventy-three

80 eighty

84 eighty-four

90 ninety

95 ninety-five

100 a hundred ou one hundred‡

101 a hundred and one (GB)§ ou a hundred one (US)

111 a hundred and eleven (GB) ou a hundred eleven (US)

123 a hundred and twenty-three (GB) ou a hundred twenty-three (US)

200 two hundred

1,000 a thousand

1,002 a thousand and two (GB) ou a thousand two (US)

1,020 a thousand and twenty (GB) ou a thousand twenty (US)

1,200 a thousand two hundred

10,000 ten thousand

10,200 ten thousand two hundred

100,000 a hundred thousand

102,000 a hundred and two thousand (GB) ou a hundred two thousand (US)

1,000,000 one million

1,200,000 one million two hundred thousand

1,264,932 one million two hundred and sixty-four thousand nine hundred and thirty-two (GB) ou one million two hundred sixty-four thousand nine hundred thirty-two (US)

2,000,000 two million¶

3,000,000,000 three thousand million (GB) ou three billion|| (US)

4,000,000,000,000 four billion (GB) ou four thousand billion (US)

= numbers up to ten

= to count up to ten

* En anglais, lorsqu’on énonce les chiffres un à un, on prononce en général le zéro oh: mon numéro de poste est le 403 = my extension number is 403 ( dire four oh three).

Pour la température, on utilise zero: il fait zéro = it’s zero.

Pour les scores dans les jeux et les sports, on utilise en général nil (GB) zero (US), sauf au tennis, où zéro se dit love.

† Noter que forty s’écrit sans u, alors que fourteen et fourth s’écrivent comme four.

‡ Les formes avec one s’utilisent lorsqu’on veut insister sur la précision du chiffre. Dans les autres cas, on utilise plutôt a.

§ Noter que and s’utilise en anglais britannique entre hundred ou thousand et le chiffre des dizaines ou des unités (mais pas entre thousand et le chiffre des centaines). Il ne s’utilise pas en anglais américain.

¶ Noter que million est invariable en anglais dans ce cas.

|| Attention: un billion américain vaut un milliard (1000 millions), alors qu’un billion britannique vaut 1000 milliards. Le billion américain est de plus en plus utilisé en Grande-Bretagne.

29 Park Road twenty-nine Park Road

110 Park Road a hundred and ten Park Road (GB) ou one ten Park Road (US)

1021 Park Road one oh two one Park Road (GB) ou ten twenty-one Park Road (US)

020 7392 1011 oh two oh, seven three nine two; one oh one one ou one oh double one

1-415-243 7620 one, four one five, two four three, seven six two oh

04 78 02 75 27 oh four, seven eight, oh two, seven five, two seven

Les dates ⇒ La date

= how many children are there?

= there are twenty-three children

Noter que l’anglais n’a pas d’équivalent du pronom français en dans:

= how many are there?

= there are twenty-three

= there’ll be 8 of us coming

= there are 8 of them

= there were 10 of them at the beginning

L’anglais million s’utilise ici comme adjectif. Noter l’absence d’équivalent anglais de la préposition de après million.

= 1,000,000 inhabitants ( dire a million inhabitants ou one million inhabitants)

= two million inhabitants

L’anglais utilise aussi les mots hundreds, thousands, millions etc. au pluriel, comme en français:

= I’ve got hundreds

= thousands of books

= the thousands of books I have read

= hundreds and hundreds

= thousands and thousands

Pour les numéraux français en -aine (dizaine, douzaine, quinzaine, vingtaine, trentaine, quarantaine, cinquantaine, soixantaine et centaine) lorsqu’ils désignent une somme approximative, l’anglais utilise le chiffre avec la préposition about ou around.

= about ten questions

= about fifteen people

= about twenty

= about a hundred

= almost ten ou nearly ten

= about ten

= about four hundred pages

= less than ten

= more than ten

= all ten of them ou all ten

= it took five of them ou (s’ils n’étaient que cinq en tout) it took all five of them

= the other two

= the next five weeks

= my last ten dollars

= volume 8 of the series ou the 8th volume of the series

= horse number 11

= to bet on number 11

= 7 is a lucky number

= line number 8 of the underground (GB) ou subway (US)

= room 8 is free

= the 8 of spades

= Louis the Fourteenth

Noter que l’anglais utilise un point (the decimal point) là où le français a une virgule. Noter également qu’en anglais britannique zéro se dit nought, et en américain zero.

0.25 nought point two five ou point two five

0.05 nought point nought five ou point oh five

0.75 nought point seven five ou point seven five

3.33 three point three three

8.195 eight point one nine five

9.1567 nine point one five six seven

25% twenty-five per cent

50% fifty per cent

100% a hundred per cent ou one hundred per cent

200% two hundred per cent

365% three hundred and sixty-five per cent (GB) ou three hundred sixty-five per cent (US)

4.25% four point two five per cent

4.025% four point oh two five per cent

Noter que l’anglais n’utilise pas l’article défini dans:

= two thirds of them

= forty-five hundredths of a second

= ten out of a hundred

1er 1st first

2e 2nd second

3e 3rd third

4e 4th fourth

5e 5th fifth

6e 6th sixth

7e 7th seventh

8e 8th eighth

9e 9th ninth

10e 10th tenth

11e 11th eleventh

12e 12th twelfth

13e 13th thirteenth

20e 20th twentieth

21e 21st twenty-first

22e 22nd twenty-second

23e 23rd twenty-third

24e 24th twenty-fourth

30e 30th thirtieth

40e 40th fortieth

50e 50th fiftieth

60e 60th sixtieth

70e 70th seventieth

80e 80th eightieth

90e 90th ninetieth

99e 99th ninety-ninth

100e 100th hundredth

101e 101st hundred and first

102e 102nd hundred and second (GB) ou hundred second (US)

103e 103rd hundred and third (GB) ou hundred third (US)

196e 196th hundred and ninety-sixth (GB) ou hundred ninety-sixth (US)

1000e‡ 1,000th thousandth

1000000e‡ 1,000,000th millionth

= the first ou the first one

= the forty-second ou the forty-second one

= there is a second one

= the second of the two

= the first three

= the third richest nation in the world

= the last four

* Noter que le signe divisé par est différent dans les deux langues: au ":" français correspond le "÷" anglais.

† Pour les fractions jusqu’à 1/10, on utilise normalement a (a third); on utilise one (one third) en mathématiques et pour les calculs précis.

‡ Noter que l’anglais utilise une virgule là où le français a un espace.