eighteen

English

Etymology

From Middle English ehtetene, from Old English eahtatīene, eahtatēne, from Proto-Germanic *ahtōutehun. Compare West Frisian achttjin, Dutch achttien, German achtzehn, Danish atten.

Alternative forms

• Arabic numerals: 18. Roman symbols: XVIII

Pronunciation

• (next word stressed near the first syllable)

  (UK, US) IPA: /ˈeɪ.tiːn/

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• (next word stressed after the first syllable)

  (UK, US) IPA: /ˌeɪˈtiːn/

• Rhymes: -iːn

Cardinal numeral

eighteen

1. The cardinal number occurring after seventeen and before nineteen, represented in Roman numerals as XVIII and in Arabic numerals as 18.

Related terms

• Ordinal: eighteenth

Translations

cardinal number

• American Sign Language:
• Arabic: ثمانية عشر (ar) (θamāniyaʈ ʕášar)

  Egyptian Arabic: تمنتاشر (tamantaashar)

• Aramaic:

  Hebrew: תמנעסר (tmāna‘sar) m, תמנעסרא (tmāna‘esrē) f

  Syriac: ܬܡܢܥܣܪ (tmāna‘sar) m, ܬܡܢܥܣܪܐ (tmāna‘esrē) f

• Armenian: տասնութ (hy) (tasnut')
• Asturian: dieciocho (ast)
• Aymara: tunka kimsaqallquni (ay)
• Azeri: on səkkiz (az)
• Basque: hemezortzi (eu), hamazortzi (eu)
• Bengali: আঠারো (bn) (aţharo)
• Breton: triwec'h (br)
• Bulgarian: осемнадесет (bg) (osemnadeset)
• Burmese: ဆယ့်ရှစ် (my) (hsè.shit)
• Catalan: divuit (ca)

  Valencian: dihuit (ca)

• Cebuano: napulo'g walo, disiotso
• Chechen: берхIитта (berhitta)
• Chichewa: khumi n'zisanu n'zitatu
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 十八 (cmn) (shíbā)

• Czech: osmnáct (cs)
• Danish: atten (da)
• Dena'ina: łtaqul'i beq'di
• Dutch: achttien (nl) f
• Esperanto: dek ok (eo)
• Estonian: kaheksateist (et)
• Finnish: kahdeksantoista (fi)
• French: dix-huit (fr) m
• Galician: dezaoito (gl)
• German: achtzehn (de)
• Greek: δεκαοκτώ (el) (dekaoktó)
• Haitian Creole: dizuit
• Hebrew: שְׁמוֹנֶה־עֶשְׂרֵה (he) (shmone esre) f (used in counting), שְׁמוֹנָה־עָשָׂר (he) (shmona asar) m
• Hindi: अठारह (hi) (aṭhārah)
• Hopi: pakwt niikyang nanalt siikya’ta
• Hungarian: tizennyolc (hu)
• Icelandic: átján (is), áttján (is) (archaic)
• Ido: dek ed ok (io)
• Indonesian: delapan belas (id)
• Interlingua: dece-octo (ia)
• Irish: ocht déag (ga)
• Italian: diciotto (it)
• Japanese: 十八 (ja) (jū-hachi)
• Jèrriais: dgiêx-huit
• Kalaallisut: arvirsaniq-pingasut (kl)

• Khmer: ដប់ប្រាំបី (km) (dop pram bei)
• Korean: 열여덟 (ko) (yeolyeodeol)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: هه‌ژده‌ (ku)

• Lao: ສິບແປດ (lo)
• Latin: duodēvīgintī (la)
• Latvian: astoņpadsmit (lv)
• Livonian: kōdõkstuoistõn
• Low German: achtteihn (nds)
• Luxembourgish: please add this translation if you can
• Macedonian: осумнаесет (mk) (osumnáeset)
• Malay: lapan belas (ms), delapan belas (ms), sepuluh lapan (ms), sepuluh delapan (ms), satu puluh lapan (ms), satu puluh delapan (ms)
• Maltese: tmintax (mt)
• Mansi: нёлловхуйплов (ɲollowxujplow)
• Mapudungun: maripura
• Mongolian: арван найм‎ (mn) (arvan najm‎)
• Navajo: tseebíítsʼáadah
• Norwegian: atten (no)
• Novial: dek-ot
• Ojibwe: ashi-nishwaaswi
• Old Armenian: ութեւտասն (utʿewtasn)
• Persian: هجده (fa) (hejdah), هیجده (fa) (hijdah)
• Polish: osiemnaście (pl) pl
• Portuguese: dezoito (pt)
• Punjabi: ਅਠਾਰ੍ਹਾਂ (pa) (aṭhārhāṅ)
• Romanian: optsprezece (ro)
• Russian: восемнадцать (ru) (vosemnádtsat’)
• Sanskrit: अष्टादशन् (sa) (aṣṭādaśan)
• Scottish Gaelic: ochd (gd) deug (gd)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: осамнаест (sh)

  Roman: osamnaest (sh)

• Sinhalese: දහඅට (si) (dhahaata)
• Slovene: osemnajst (sl)
• Spanish: dieciocho (es)
• Swedish: arton (sv), aderton (sv) (obsolete, Finnish Swedish)
• Tagalog: labingwalo (tl)
• Telugu: పద్దెనిమిది (te)
• Thai: สิบแปด (th)
• Turkish: on sekiz (tr)
• Ukrainian: вісімнадцять (uk) (visimnadcjat')
• Urdu: اٹھارہ (ur) (aṭhārah)
• Vietnamese: mười tám (vi)
• Volapük: degjöl (vo)
• Welsh: deunaw (cy) (vigesimal, traditional), un deg wyth (cy) (decimal)
• West Frisian: achttjin (fy)
• Yiddish: אַכצן (yi) (akhtsn)

See also

• Last: seventeen. Next: nineteen