Usage Note
Quinientos agrees in gender: quinientos euros but quinientas personas. The feminine form quinientas is required before feminine nouns, a rule that applies to all hundreds from 200 to 900 in Spanish. The year 1500 is said mil quinientos.
Examples
"Pagó quinientos euros por el abrigo."
Natural Translation
She paid five hundred euros for the coat.
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