doscientas

Doscientas is the feminine form of the Spanish cardinal numeral doscientos, used to express the quantity two hundred when it modifies a feminine noun. It is written as a single word and agrees in gender with the noun it accompanies. For masculine nouns, the corresponding form is doscientos.

Doscientas is used before feminine nouns such as personas, horas, ciudades, and other feminine nouns. Examples include doscientas personas (two hundred people) and doscientas horas (two hundred hours). When the noun is masculine, the masculine form is used, as in doscientos libros (two hundred books) or doscientos kilómetros (two hundred kilometers).

Etymology-wise, the form doscientas comes from doscientos (two hundred), which itself is built from dos (two) and cientos (hundreds). The feminine ending -as marks agreement with feminine nouns and reflects the same historical origin as the masculine doscientos.

Usage notes: In standard Spanish, the form of the hundred part agrees with the gender of the noun it modifies. When counting quantities beyond two hundred, the remainder is expressed according to Spanish number rules, with the preceding hundreds part matching the noun’s gender (for feminine nouns, doscientas; for masculine nouns, doscientos). Doscientas is not used independently as a numeral; it functions only as an adjective agreeing with a feminine noun.