English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
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 [edit]
Pronunciation [edit]
- (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 [edit]
sixteen
- The cardinal number occurring after fifteen and before seventeen, represented in Arabic numerals as 16 and in Roman numerals as XVI.
Related terms [edit]
Translations [edit]
cardinal number 16
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- 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)
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See also [edit]