Is it "five hundred thousand" or "five hundred thousands"? [closed]

I googled "500,000 in English" then I got five hundred thousand.

I wonder, if we say...five dogs then why five hundred thousand?

Actually, in my view, it should've been called as: five hundreds thousands

What's the reason behind all this?

Solution 1:

If you're going straight by the grammatical terms, then both are technically correct, just depending on the case in which you are using it.

If you are referring to individual thousands, and multiples of that, then you could refer to it as five hundred thousands.

However, when we talk in everyday language, when we say five hundred thousand we are not referring to five hundred individual thousands, but rather the number five hundred thousand on its own. Therefore, you'll here that more commonly.

They both are referring to the same number, it just depends on whether you're taking a multiple of one term or an individual other term.