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Old December 20, 2011, 06:15 AM
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Why is the number "cuatro" not declined?

"El viaje de Raquel tiene une demora de cuatro horas."

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"El viaje de Raquel tiene une demora de cuatro horas."
The numbers un(o)/-a and cientos/-as agree in gender with the following noun. These are the only numbers that decline. If cuatro were to agree, it would not exist as cuatro, only cuatros/-as.

(Ordinal numbers are nouns or adjectives, so their change is called declination. Only verbs conjugate).
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