Hundratusen

Hundratusen is the Swedish cardinal number for the value 100,000. It is formed from the words hundra meaning "hundred" and tusen meaning "thousand," and it denotes one hundred thousand in everyday and formal usage.

In modern Swedish, large numbers are often written with spaces to separate thousands, as in 100 000. When numbers are written in words, hundratusen can appear as a single compound or as two words, hundra tusen, depending on style and typography. Both forms are understood and used in Swedish texts.

Usage of hundratusen commonly appears in statistics, population counts, budgets, and other quantities that reach into the hundreds of thousands. For example, a city population or a national figure might be described as "cirka hundratusen människor." In numerical form, 100 000 is written as 100 000.

Etymologically, hundratusen is a straightforward compound of hundra and tusen, reflecting the base-10 grouping system that Swedish uses for large numbers. It corresponds to the English term "one hundred thousand" and to similar forms in other Germanic languages.

See also: Swedish numbers, large-number naming conventions, numerical notation.