Hundert

See also: hundert and hûndert

German

Nominalization of hundert, which see.

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.

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 of Hundert [neuter, strong // mixed]

Hundert f (genitive Hundert, plural Hunderten)

Declension of Hundert [feminine]