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Well Angelica have answered you. Maybe I can divide the usage as:
"centener" is rather use for celebrations or achieves, and "ciento" in everyday language, but it don't have any formal difference. Here "ciento" is not use the way Angelica showed (that is right, of course) "Compré un ciento de naranjas" There we would say: "Compré cien naranjas" or "Compré un centenar de naranjas" or been unusual: "Compré una centena de naranjas" Here "ciento" isn't use as "100 years", it sounds weird for me. The only ocassion I can remember that is used is when saying "ciento porciento" (100%) or when counting or: "ciento y tantos años de..." * "cientos" is use as an undefinate number of hundreads and it's very common. "Han pasado cientos de años desde que..." I would use them this way: "Se conmemora el centenar de 'La Batalla de las Piedras Caídas'" "Se conmemoran cien años de 'La ..." "¡Un centenear de hombres ha irrumpido en el castillo!" "¡Cien hombres han irrumpido en el castillo!"
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Last edited by ookami; September 23, 2009 at 02:42 PM. |
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