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He was escorted by twenty-one soldiers.
Veinte y un soldados le escortaban.

The fleet consisted of twenty-two vessels.
La flota se componia de veinte y dos navíos.
This work is in thirty volumes.

Esta obra comprehende treinta tomos.
Thirty-one of them remain with me.
Me quedan treinta y uno.
Thirty-two are sufficient.
Treinta y dos son suficientes.
His illness lasted forty days.

Su enfermedad duró quarenta dias.
There were forty-one ladies at the ball.
Habia quarenta y una señoras en el bayle.
Have you forty-two of them?

Tiene vmd. quarenta y dos de ellos?
I have got fifty at least.

A lo menos tengo cincuenta.

He lost fifty-one per cent.

Ha perdido cincuenta y uno por
This room is fifty-two feet wide.

ciento.

Este quarto tiene cincuenta y dos pies de ancho.
The parlour is sixty feet long.

La sala tiene sesenta pies de largo.
This house is sixty-one feet high.

Esta casa tiene sesenta y un pies de alto.

They say that the river is sixty-two fathoms deep. Se dice que el rio tiene sesenta y dos brazas de hondo.

He was seventy years old when he died.

Tenia setenta años quando murió.

There were seventy-one people killed.

Hubo setenta y un muertos.

This schoolmaster has seventy-two scholars.
Este maestro de escuela tiene setenta y dos discí-
pulos.

He has had seventy-three votes.

Ha tenido setenta y tres votos.
It is a ship of seventy-four guns.
Es un navío de setenta y quatro.
He has seventy-five barrels of flour.
Tiene setenta y cinco barriles de harina.
He has got seventy-six hogsheads of wine.
Tiene setenta y seis barricas de vino.
That weighs seventy-seven pounds.
Esto pesa setenta y siete libras.

I have counted seventy-eight vessels in the harbour
He contado setenta y ocho buques en el puerto.

Seventy-nine.
Setenta y nueve.

Eighty.
Ochenta.

Eighty-one.
Ochenta y uno.
Eighty-two.
Ochenta y dos.

Ninety.

Noventa.

Ninety-one.
Noventa y uno.
Ninety-two.
Noventa y dos.
Ninety-three.
Noventa y tres.

Ninety-four.
Noventa y quatro.

Ninety-five.
Noventa y cinco.
Ninety-six.
Noventa y seis.
Ninety-seven.
Noventa y siete.
Ninety-eight.
Noventa y ocho.
Ninety-nine.

Noventa y nueve.

A hundred.

Ciento.

Who would think that he is seventy-nine years old?
Quien creerá que tiene setenta y nueve años.
They have fired eighty guns.

Han tirado ochenta cañonazos.

This heap of corn contains eighty-one bushels.
En este monton de trigo hay ochenta y una fanegas.
This pamphlet has not above eighty-two pages.
Este quaderno impreso no tiene mas de ochenta y
dos hojas.

Its longitude is ninety degrees (in speaking of a
town).

Su longitud es de noventa grados.

This hotel has ninety-one windows.

Esta fonda tiene noventa y una ventanas.

He has written ninety-two plays.

Ha escrito noventa y dos comedias.

His garden is ninety-three feet in circumference.
Su jardin tiene noventa y tres pies de circunfe-

rencia.

I killed the mad dog at ninety-four paces.
He matado el perro rabioso á noventa y quatro
pasos.

There are only ninety-five lines in his poem.
Su poema solo tiene noventa y cinco versos.
He asks ninety-six pounds sterling for it.
Pide por él noventa y seis libras esterlinas.
Send me ninety-seven of them.
Envieme vmd. noventa y siete.
I found only ninety-eight nails.

Solo he hallado noventa y ocho clavos.
Count better, you will find ninety-nine.

Cuenta vmd. mejor, y hallará noventa y nueve.
Ten times ten make a hundred.

Diez veces diez hacen ciento.

One hundred and There were on board one hundred and one sailors.

one.

Ciento y uno.

Five hundred.

Quinientos.
A thousand.
Mil.

One thousand.

Mil.

A million.
Un millon.
Once.

Una vez.
Twice.
Dos veces.

Habia á bordo ciento y un marineros.

She was robbed of five hundred dollars.

La han robado quinientos pesos.

They say that a thousand men perished there.

Se dice que pereciéron mi? hombres.

The year of our LORD one thousand eight hundred and eleven.

El año del SEÑOR mil ochocientos y once.

The state is in debt more than a million.

El estado tiene mas de un million de deudas.
I forgave you once.

He perdonado á vmd. una vez,
I spoke to him but twice.

Solo le he hablado dos veces.

Three times, &c. He has done it in three times.

Tres veces.

First.

Primero.

Second.
Segundo.

Second.

Segunda.
Third.

Tercero, tercera.
Tenth, &c.
Décimo, décima.
Twenty-first.
Vigésimo primo.
Last.

Ultimo, última.

Last.

Pasado.

Half.

Medio.

Third part.

Tercio, tercia.
The fourth.

Quarto, quarta.
The fifth.
Quinto, quinta.
Double.

Doble.

Several times.

Algunas veces,

varias veces.

Treble.

Lo ha hecho en tres veces.

Sunday is the first day in the week.

El Domingo es el dia primero de la semana.
We meet the second Monday of each month.
Nos juntamos el segundo Lúnes de cada mes.
I warned him of it a second time.
Se lo advertí una segunda vez.
He keeps a store in Third-street.
Tiene almacen en la calle tercera.
He was sitting on the tenth bench.
Estaba sentado en la banca décima.
He entered on the twenty-first.
Entró el dia vigésimo primo.

I shall pay you the last day of the month
Pagaré á vmd. el último del mes.

Peace was made in Europe last year.

El año pasado fué concluida la paz en Europa.
I ate the half of a chicken at dinner.

He comido medio pollo hoy al medio dia.

I must have two ells and one third more of this
cloth.

Necesito todavía dos varas y tercia de este paño.
The fourth part of this money belongs to me.
La quarta parte de este dinero me pertenece.
gave her the fifth part of my income.
Le di la quinta parte de mi renta.

I

I offered him double what it cost him.

Le he ofrecido el doble de lo que le cuesta.

I called him several times with a loud voice.
Le llamé á gritos varias veces.

Nine is the treble of three.

Nueve es el triplo de tres.

Triplo.

Quadruple, or

He paid the quadruple of that sum.

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Ha pagado el quadruplo de esa suma.
He sells them by the dozen.

Los vende por docenas.

I ought a score of eggs at market.

He comprado una veintena de huevos en la plaza del mercado.

We have walked thirty miles to-day.

Hemos andado treinta millas hoy.
He treated us with a hundred oysters.
Nos obsequió con un ciento de ostras.

A thousand guineas a year would be sufficient to
live genteelly upon in Paris.

Con mil guineas anuales se puede vivir comoda

mente en Paris.

ADJECTIVES

ENDING IN E ARE COMMON TO BOTH GENDERS.

Admirable.
Admirable.
Admirable.
Admirable.
Agreeable.

Agradable.

Agreeable.

Agradable.

This man is admirable for his virtue.
Este hombre es admirable por su virtud.
This woman is admirable in her conduct.
Esta muger es admirable en su conducta.
He is a very agreeable man in company.
Es un hombre agradable en compañía.

She has a more agreeable voice than her sister. Tiene una voz mas agradable que su hermana. Commendable. It is commendable to do one's duty.

Laudable.
Commendable.
Laudable.

Inconsolable.

Inconsolable.
Inconsolable.
Inconsolable.

Miserable.

Miserable.

Miserable.

Miserable.

Incredible.

Increible.

Incredible.
Increible.

Lovely.
Agradable.
Lovely.
Agradable.
Fickle.

Inconstante. Fickle. Inconstante. Likely. Probable. Likely. Probable. Suitable. Conveniente. Suitable. Conveniente.

Favourable.

Favorable.

Favourable.

Favorable.

Es muy laudable de cumplir con sus obligaciones.
You have done a commendable thing.
Vmd. ha hecho una cosa muy laudable.
Her death has rendered him inconsolable.
Su muerte le puso inconsolable.
She was inconsolable for his departure.
Su partida la puso inconsolable.

He lives in a very miserable manner.
Vive del modo mas miserable.
She is a very miserable woman.
Es una muger muy miserable.
What you tell me is incredible.
Lo que vmd. me dice es increible.
I will never believe so incredible a thing.
Nunca creeré una cosa tan increible.
It is the most lovely place in the world.
Es el parage mas agradable del mundo.
She is the most lovely woman I know.
Es la muger mas agradable que conozco.
The French are said to be fickle.

Los Franceses tienen fama de inconstantes.
Youth is commonly fickle.

La juventud es inconstante por lo general.
Do you believe it is likely (or probable)?
Cree vmd. que eso sea probable ?

It appears to me a very likely (or probable) thing.
Eso me parece una cosa muy probable.
This apartment is not suitable.

Este quarto no es conveniente.

I could not find a suitable house.

No he podido encontrar una casa que sea conveniente.
Every body has been favourable to him.

Todos le han sido favorables.

You miss a favourable opportunity.
Vmd. pierde una ocasion favorable.

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He is in an honourable employment.
Tiene un empleo honorable.

He has reached an honourable old age.
Ha llegado á una vejez honorable.
This book is invaluable.

Este libro es inapreciable.
This is an invaluable thing.
Es una cosa inapreciable.

That misfortune was unavoidable.
Esta desgracia era inevitable.
They look upon it as unavoidable.
Consideran eso como inevitable.
What I promise you is infallible.
Lo que prometo á vmd. es infalible.
He has discovered an infallible truth,
Ha descubierto una verdad infalible.
The peasants of that country are very poor.
Los campesinos de ese pais son muy pobres.
I gave alms to a poor woman.

He dado limosna á una muger pobre.
How sad you look!

Qué triste parece vmd. !
My soul is sad unto death.
Tengo el alma muy triste.
I hate ungovernable minds.
Aborrezco los genios intratables.
She is not so ungovernable as he is.
No es tan intratable como él.

That noise was very disagreeable to her.
Ese ruido le era muy desagradable.
That visit is very disagreeable to him.
Esta visita le es muy desagradable.
It is the most detestable of all crimes.
Es el crímen mas detestable.

The bare recollection of it is detestable.
La idea sola de ello es detestable.
He has a very deformed (or ugly) face.
Tiene la cara muy disforme.

This woman's shape is very deformed.
El talle de esta muger es muy disforme.
I never saw a more despicable man.

Nunca he visto un hombre mas despreciable.
Such bad conduct will render her despicable.
Semejante mala conducta la hará despreciable.
Do you believe him guilty of such a crime?
Cree vmd. que sea culpable de semejante delito?
I would bet that she is not guilty of it.
Apostaria que no es culpable de ello.

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