The way to write 200 correctly in letters is as follows: two hundred. The word two hundred is completely out of use and is a spelling belonging to an older era.
The number two hundred indicates that the number one hundred is added twice, this natural number is the following one hundred ninety-nine and the predecessor of two hundred one, it can be used either as a pronoun or as an adjective.
Two hundred indicates that the same name that it accompanies is replaced by a number two hundred times or also that it occupies this place.
This same number must be put in the feminine when it precedes another noun that is also in this gender.
Examples
- I bought two hundred kilos of dough.
- We were two hundred people at the event.
- It holds two hundred liters.
- I had two hundred printed T-shirts made.
- I bought myself a luxury box with two hundred colors.
- With this new book that I bought, I complete two hundred.
- I have shift two hundred.
- The company bought two hundred new machines to make work more efficient and effective.
Two hundred in roman numerals
The two hundred in Roman numerals must be written as follows: CC, this number has three figures when enumeration is made in Arabic and with two figures when it is done in Roman.
Ordinal number
The ordinal number that corresponds to two hundred is two hundredth.
About number 200
The number two hundred belongs to the numbers called compound cardinals, that is, they are formed by means of simple cardinals: two plus hundreds, likewise the other hundreds would be formed as five hundred, seven hundred, nine hundred, etc.
Regarding the ordinal number that we have already seen, which is two hundredth, it is good to clarify that, for example, when the two hundredth anniversary of an event is celebrated, this is not usually used, but bicentennial, that is, instead of saying it is the two hundredth of the city, it is says it is the bicentennial of the city.
Two hundred in other languages
If you are interested, below we will show you how to write 200 in different languages, search the list for those that you think may be useful or interest you.
- Afrikaans: twee honderd
- Albanian: dy qind
- German: zweihundert
- Amharic: ሁለት መቶ
- Armenian
- Azeri: iki yüz
- Bengali: দু’শো
- Belarusian: дзвесце
- Burma: နှစျရာ
- Bosnian: dvije stotine
- Bulgarian: двеста
- Cambodian: ពីររយ
- Kannada: ಇನ್ನೂರು
- Catalan: two-cents
- Cebuano: duha ka gatus ka
- Czech: dvě stě
- Chichewa: apple awiri
- Chinese: 兩百
- Sinhala: දෙසිය
- Korean: 이백
- Course: duie centu
- Haitian Creole: from San
- Croatian: dve stotine
- Danish: dve stotine
- Slovak: dvesto
- Slovenian: dvesto
- Esperanto: ducent
- Estonian: kakssada
- Basque: berrehun
- Finnish: kaksisataa
- French: deux cent
- Frisian: twahundert
- Scottish Gaelic: dà cheud
- Welsh: dau gant
- Galician: douscentos
- Georgian: ორასი
- Greek: διακόσια
- Gujarati: બે સો
- Hausa: ɗari biyu
- Hawaiian: elua haneri
- Hindi: दो सौ
- Hmong: ob barbs
- Dutch: tweehonderd
- Hungarian: kétszáz
- Igbo: ọgu
- Indonesian: dua ratus
- English: Two Hundred
- Irish: dhá chéad
- Icelandic: tvö hundruð
- Italian: duecento
- Japanese: 二百
- Javanese: rong atus
- Kazakh: екі жүз
- Kyrgyz: эки жүз
- Kurdish: du thirst
- Lao: ສອງຮ້ອຍ
- Latin: ducenti
- Latvian: divi simti
- Lithuanian: du šimtai
- Luxembourgish: zwee honnert
- Macedonian: двесте
- Malayalam: ഇരുനൂറു
- Malay: dua ratus
- Malagasy: roan-jato
- Maltese: mitejn
- Maori: e rua rau
- Marathi: दोनशे
- Mongolian: хоёр zuуn
- Nepali: दुई सय
- Norwegian: to hundred
- Punjabi: ਦੋ ਸੌ
- Polish: dwieście
- Portuguese: duzentos
- Romanian: două sute
- Russian: двести
- Samoan: e lua selau
- Serbian: две стотине
- Sesoto: tse makholo to mabeli
- Shona: mazana maviri
- Somali: laba boqol
- Swahili: mia mbili
- Swedish: tvåhundra
- Sudanese: dua ratus
- Tagalog: dalawandaan
- Thai: สองร้อย
- Tamil: இருநூறு
- Tajik: дусаду
- Telugu: రెండువందల
- Turkish: iki yüz
- Ukrainian: двіstі
- Uzbek: ikki yuz
- Vietnamese: hai trăm
- Xhosa: ezimakhulu mabini
- Yoruba: meji ọgọrun
- Zulu: angamakhulu amabili
Note
The correct spelling of numbers when they are written in letters is not complicated, it is just a matter of learning a few rules and putting them into practice.