Hundert
Appearance
German
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Nominalization of hundert, which see.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]Hundert n (strong or mixed, genitive Hunderts, plural (see usage notes) Hundert or Hunderte or Hunderten)
- hundred (set or unit of one hundred items)
- ein halbes Hundert ― half a hundred
- Nach dem ersten Hundert habe ich noch zwei weitere Hundert bestellt.
- After the first hundred I ordered two more hundreds [packs of a hundred each].
- (in the plural) hundreds, a lot (unspecified large quantity)
- Es gibt Hunderte (von) Sorten. ― There are hundreds of varieties.
- Es gibt viele Hundert(e) (von) Sorten. ― There are many hundreds of varieities.
- Die Hunderte(n) (von) Sorten sind kaum zu unterscheiden. ― The hundreds of varieities are hardly distinguishable.
- 2014, Der Spiegel[1], number 21/2014, page 62:
- Aber erst in Beirut lernte sie, wie professionelles Kochen geht, die Logistik, das Timing, die Organisation, um mehrere Hundert Mahlzeiten zuzubereiten.
- But not until Beirut she learned how professional cooking works, the logistics, the timing, the organization for preparing several hundred meals.
Usage notes
[edit]- In sense 1, the plural is always unchanged. In sense 2, it can be unchanged optionally after an indefinite numeral such as viele or etliche. Otherwise the standard plural for sense 2 is Hunderte. However, it is also fairly common to use adjectival declension in the plural, meaning that the form becomes Hunderten after articles and determiners, otherwise Hunderte.
- A following noun may be added as an apposition or with von (“of”).
Declension
[edit]Declension of Hundert [neuter, strong // mixed]
Derived terms
[edit]- von Hundert, v. H.
- hundert, hunderte (indefinite sense only)
Noun
[edit]Hundert f (genitive Hundert, plural Hunderten)
- hundred (the number)
- (Die) Hundert ist die Quadratzahl von 10.
- Hundred is the square of 10.
- Was bedeutet die Hundert, die du hier aufgeschrieben hast?
- What does this hundred mean that you wrote down here?
Declension
[edit]Declension of Hundert [feminine]
Further reading
[edit]- “Hundert (Zahl)” in Duden online
- “Hundert (Menge, Einheit)” in Duden online
- “Hundert” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache