sixteen

English

Etymology

From Middle English, from Old English siextīene, sixtēne, sixtyne, from Proto-Germanic *sehstehun. Compare West Frisian sechstjin, Dutch zestien, German sechzehn, Danish seksten.

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 numeral

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:

  Hebrew: שתעסר (shta‘sar) m, שתעסרא (shta‘esrē) f

  Syriac: ܫܬܥܣܪ (shta‘sar) m, ܫܬܥܣܪܐ (shta‘esrē) f

• Armenian: տասնվեց (hy) (tasnvec') 
• Asturian: dieciséis (ast)
• Aymara: tunka suxtani (ay)
• Azeri: on altı (az)
• Basque: hamasei (eu)
• Bengali: সোলো (bn) (sholo)
• Breton: c'hwezek (br)
• Burmese: ဆယ့်ခြောက် (my) (hsè.chauk)
• Catalan: setze (ca)
• Chechen: ялхитта (yalxitta)
• Chichewa: khumi n'zisanu n'chimodzi
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 十六 (cmn) (shíliù)

• Crimean Tatar: please add this translation if you can
• Czech: šestnáct (cs)
• Dalmatian: setco
• 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)
• Friulian: sedis
• Galician: dezaseis (gl)
• German: sechzehn (de)
• Greek: δεκαέξι (el) (dekaéxi) 
• Haitian Creole: sèz
• Hebrew: שֵׁשׁ־עֶשְׂרֵה (he) (shesh esre) f (used in counting), שִׁשָּׁה־עָשָׂר (he) (shisha asar) m
• Hindi: सोलह (hi) (solah)
• Hopi: pakwt niikyang navay siikya’ta
• Hungarian: tizenhat (hu)
• Icelandic: sextán (is)
• Indonesian: enam belas (id)
• Interlingua: dece-sex (ia)
• Irish: sé déag (ga)
• Italian: sedici (it) m
• Japanese: 十六 (ja) (じゅうろく, jū-roku)

• Jèrriais: seize
• Kalaallisut: arvirsanillit
• Khmer: ដប់ប្រាំមួយ (km) (dop pram muoy)
• Korean: 열여섯 (ko) (yeolyeoseot)
• Lao: ເລກສິບຫົກ (lo)
• Latin: sēdecim (la)
• Latvian: sešpadsmit (lv)
• Livonian: kūžtuoistõn
• Low German: sössteihn (nds), sossteihn (nds)
• Luxembourgish: please add this translation if you can
• Macedonian: шеснаесет (mk) (šesnáeset)
• Malay: enam belas (ms), sepuluh enam (ms), satu puluh enam (ms)
• Maltese: sittax (mt)
• Mansi: хотхуйплов (xōtxujplow)
• Mapudungun: marikayu
• Mongolian: арван зургаа‎ (mn) (arvan zurgaa‎)
• Navajo: hastą́ʼáadah
• Norwegian: seksten (no)
• Novial: dek-six
• Occitan: setze (oc)
• Ojibwe: ashi-ingodwaaswi
• Persian: شانزده (fa) (šânzdah)
• Polish: szesnaście (pl)
• Portuguese: dezasseis (pt), dezesseis (pt)
• Punjabi: ਸੋਲ੍ਹਾਂ (pa) (solhāṅ)
• Romanian: șaisprezece (ro), șaișpe (ro) (informal)
• Romansch: sedesch (rm), sedisch (rm), saidesch (rm)
• Russian: шестнадцать (ru) (šestnádtsat’) 
• Sanskrit: सोस्दषन् (sa) (sódashan)
• Sardinian: sedichi (sc), seghi (sc), segi (sc), seighi (sc)
• Scottish Gaelic: sia (gd) deug (gd)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: шеснаест (sh)

  Roman: šesnaest (sh)

• Sinhalese: දහසය (si) (dhahasaya)
• Slovene: šestnajst (sl)
• Spanish: dieciséis (es) m
• Swedish: sexton (sv)
• Tagalog: labing-anim (tl)
• Telugu: పదహారు (te)
• Thai: สิบหก (th)
• Turkish: on altı (tr)
• Urdu: سولہ (ur) (solah)
• Vietnamese: mười sáu (vi)
• Volapük: degmäl (vo)
• Welsh: un ar bymtheg (cy) (vigesimal, traditional), un deg chwech (cy) (decimal)
• West Frisian: sechstjin (fy)
• Yiddish: זעכצן (yi) (zekhtsn)

See also

• Last: fifteen. Next: seventeen