sixteen

English

Alternative forms

• Symbolic: 16
• Roman: XVI

Pronunciation

• (next word stressed near the first syllable)

  (UK, US) IPA: /ˈsɪks.tiːn/

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• (next word stressed after the first syllable)

  (UK, US) IPA: /ˌsɪksˈtiːn/

  Rhymes: -iːn

Cardinal number

sixteen

1. The cardinal number occurring after fifteen and before seventeen, represented in Arabic numerals as 16 and in Roman numerals as XVI.

Related terms

• Ordinal: sixteenth

Translations

cardinal number 16

Albanian: gjashtëmbëdhjetë  (sq) American Sign Language: Arabic: سِتَّةَ عَشَرَ (ar) (sittata 3ashara) Egyptian Arabic: ستاشر (sittaashar) Aramaic: Syriac: ܫܬܥܣܪ (shta‘sar) m., ܫܬܥܣܪܐ (shta‘esrē) f. Armenian: տասնվեց (hy) (tasnvec') Azeri: on altı (az) Basque: hamasei Bosnian: šesnaest (bs) Breton: c'hwezek Burmese: ဆယ့်ခြောက် (my) (hsè.chauk) Catalan: setze (ca) Chechen: ялхитта (yalxitta) Chinese: 十六 (shíliù) Czech: šestnáct (cs) Danish: seksten (da) Dena'ina: k'uzhch'en'i beq'di Dutch: zestien (nl) f. Esperanto: dek ses (eo) Estonian: kuusteist (et) Finnish: kuusitoista (fi) French: seize (fr) Galician: dezaseis (gl) German: sechzehn (de) Greek: δεκαέξι (el) (dekaéxi) Haitian Creole: sèz Hebrew: שתעסר (shta‘sar) m., שתעסרא (shta‘esrē) f. Hebrew: שֵׁשׁ־עֶשְׂרֵה (shesh esre) f. (used in counting), שִׁשָּׁה־עָשָׂר (shisha asar) m. Hindi: सोलह (hi) (solah) Hopi: pakwt niikyang navay siikya’ta Hungarian: tizenhat (hu) Icelandic: sextán (is) Indonesian: enam belas

Interlingua: dece-sex (ia) Irish: sé déag (ga) Italian: sedici (it) m. Japanese: 十六 (じゅうろく, jū-rokú) Kalaallisut: arvirsanillit Khmer: ដប់ប្រាំមួយ (dop pram muoy) Korean: 열여섯 (yeolyeoseot) Latin: sēdecim (la) Latvian: sešpadsmit Livonian: kūžtuoistõn Macedonian: шеснаесет (mk) (šesnáeset) Maltese: sittax Mapudungun: marikayu Mongolian: арван зургаа‎ (mn) Navajo: hastą́ʼáadah Norwegian: seksten (no) Novial: dek-six Persian: شانزده (fa) (šânzdah) Polish: szesnaście (pl) Portuguese: dezasseis, dezesseis Romanian: șaisprezece, șaișpe (informal) Russian: шестнадцать (ru) (šestnádtsat’) Sanskrit: sódashan, सोस्दषन् (sa) (sódashan) Scottish Gaelic: sia (gd) deug (gd) Sinhala: දහසය (dhahasaya) Slovene: šestnajst Spanish: dieciséis (es) m. Swedish: sexton (sv) Tagalog: labing-anim Telugu: పదహారు Turkish: on altı (tr) Urdu: سولہ (ur) (solah) Volapük: degmäl (vo) Welsh: un ar bymtheg (vigesimal, traditional), un deg chwech (decimal) West Frisian: sechstjin

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