nineteen

English

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Cardinal: nineteen     Ordinal: nineteenth     Adverbial: nineteen times     Multiplier: nineteenfold     Collective: nineteensome

Alternative forms

• Arabic numerals: 19. Roman symbols: XIX

Etymology

From Middle English nynetene, nintene, from Old English niġontīene, niġontēne, from Proto-Germanic *newuntehun. Cognate with Dutch negentien, Low German negenteihn, Hunsrik neinzen, German neunzehn, Danish nitten.

Equivalent to nine +‎ -teen

Pronunciation

• (next word stressed near the first syllable)
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈnaɪntiːn/
  • (General American) enPR: nīnʹtēn', IPA^(key): /ˈnaɪnˌtin/

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• (next word stressed after the first syllable)
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /naɪnˈtiːn/
  • (General American) enPR: nīn'tēnʹ, IPA^(key): /ˌnaɪnˈtin/
  • Rhymes: -iːn

Numeral

nineteen

1. The cardinal number occurring after eighteen and before twenty, represented in Roman numerals as XIX and in Arabic numerals as 19. It is the last/largest of the "teens".
   • 1997, Swan Dive (lyrics and music), “Groovy Tuesday” (track 1), in Wintergreen, performed by Swan Dive:

     She says groovy like it's nineteen sixty-nine.

Derived terms

• (ordinal): nineteenth

• nineteen hundred
• nineteen hundreds
• nineteen to the dozen

 

Related terms

• (adj. of the number 19 or a 19-year period): decennoval

Translations

cardinal number

• Afrikaans: negentien (af)
• Albanian: nëntëmbëdhjetë (sq)
• American Sign Language:
• Amharic: አስራ ዘጠኝ (ʾäsra zäṭäñ)
• Apache:

  Western Apache: ńgóstʼáítsʼádah

• Arabic: تِسْعَةَ عَشَرَ‎ (tisʕata ʕašara)

  Egyptian Arabic: تسعتاشر‎ (tisʕatāšar)

• Aramaic:

  Hebrew: תשעסר‎ m (tsha‘sar), תשעסרא‎ f (tsha‘esrē)

  Syriac: ܬܫܥܣܪ‎ m (tsha‘sar), ܬܫܥܣܪܐ‎ f (tsha'esrē)

• Armenian: տասնինը (hy) (tasninə)

  Old Armenian: իննեւտասն (innewtasn)

• Asturian: diecinueve (ast)
• Aymara: tunka llätunkani
• Azerbaijani: on doqquz (az)
• Bashkir: ун туғыҙ (on toğıð)
• Basque: hemeretzi (eu)
• Belarusian: дзевятна́ццаць (be) (dzjevjatnáccacʹ)
• Bengali: উনিশ (bn) (uniś) (numeral: ১৯)
• Bikol Central: kagsiyam
• Breton: naontek (br)
• Brunei Malay: sambilan balas
• Bulgarian: деветна́десет (devetnádeset), деветна́йсет (devetnájset)
• Burmese: ဆယ့်ကိုး (hcai.kui:) (numeral: ၁၉)
• Buryat: арбан юһэн (arban juhen)
• Catalan: dinou (ca)
• Cebuano: napulog siyam
• Central Sierra Miwok: naˀá·ča- woˀé-ˀ hej·i-ˀ
• Chechen: ткъайоьсна (tqʼajösna)
• Cherokee: ᏐᏁᎳᏚ (soneladu)
• Chichewa: khumi n'zisanu n'zinayi
• Chickasaw: awa-chakká'li
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 十九 (sap⁶ gau²)

  Hakka: 十九 (sṳ̍p-kiú)

  Mandarin: 十九 (zh) (shíjiǔ)

• Chuvash: вунтӑххӑр (vunt̬ăhhăr), вунтăххăр (vuntăhhăr), вунтăхăр (vuntăhăr)
• Classical Nahuatl: caxtōlli onnāhui
• Czech: devatenáct (cs)
• Dalmatian: dichinú
• Danish: nitten (da)
• Dena'ina: łq'ich'idi beq'di
• Dhivehi: ނަވާރަ‎ (navāra), އޮނަވިހި‎ (onavihi)
• Dutch: negentien (nl) f
• Dzongkha: བཅུ་དགུ (bcu dgu)
• Esperanto: dek naŭ
• Estonian: üheksateist (et)
• Fijian: tini ka ciwa
• Finnish: yhdeksäntoista (fi)
• French: dix-neuf (fr) m
• Galician: dezanove (gl)
• Georgian: ცხრამეტი (ka) (cxrameṭi)
• German: neunzehn (de)
• Greek: δεκαεννέα (el) (dekaennéa), δεκαεννιά (el) (dekaenniá)

  Ancient: ἐννεακαίδεκα (enneakaídeka), ιθ΄ (numeral)

• Greenlandic: arfersaneq-sisamat (kl)
• Haitian Creole: diznèf
• Hawaiian: ʻumikūmāiwa
• Hebrew: תְּשַׁע־עֶשְׂרֵה‎ f (t'sha esre) (used in counting), תִּשְׁעָה־עָשָׂר‎ m (tish'a asar)
• Hindi: उन्नीस (hi) (unnīs)
• Hopi: pakwt niikyang pevt siikya’ta
• Hungarian: tizenkilenc (hu)
• Hunsrik: neinzen
• Icelandic: nítján (is)
• Ido: dek-e-non (io)
• Inari Sami: oovcenubáloh
• Indonesian: sembilan belas (id)
• Ingrian: yheksäntoist
• Interlingua: dece-nove
• Irish: naoi déag
• Italian: diciannove (it)
• Japanese: 十九 (ja) (じゅうきゅう, jūkyū, じゅうく, jūku)
• Javanese: sangalas
• Kannada: ಹತ್ತೊಂಬತ್ತು (kn) (hattombattu)
• Kazakh: он тоғыз (kk) (on toğyz)
• Khmer: ដប់ប្រាំបួន (dop pram buon) (numeral: ១៩)
• Komi-Permyak: дасӧкмыс (dasökmys)
• Korean: 열아홉 (ko) (yeorahop), 십구(十九) (ko) (sipgu)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: نۆزدە‎ (nozde)

  Northern Kurdish: nozde (ku)

• Kyrgyz: он тогуз (ky) (on toguz)
• Ladin: please add this translation if you can
• Lakota: akénapčiyuŋka
• Lao: ສິບເກົ້າ (sip kao) (numeral: ໑໙)
• Latin: ūndēvīgintī (la)
• Latvian: deviņpadsmit (lv)
• Ligurian: dixinêuve
• Lithuanian: devyniolika (lt)
• Livonian: īdõkstuoistõn
• Lombard: please add this translation if you can
• Louisiana Creole French: diz-nèf
• Low German: negenteihn (nds), nägenteihn

  German Low German: negenteihn (nds)

• Lü: ᦉᦲᧇᦂᧁᧉ (ṡiibk̇aw²) (numeral: ᧑᧙)
• Luxembourgish: nongzéng, nonzéng (lb)
• Macedonian: деветна́есет (devetnáeset)
• Malagasy: sivy ambinifolo
• Malay: sembilan belas (ms), sepuluh sembilan, satu puluh sembilan
• Malayalam: പത്തൊമ്പത് (ml) (pattompatŭ)
• Maltese: dsatax
• Mansi: онтэлловхуйплов (ontèllowhujplow)
• Maori: tekau mā iwa (mi)
• Mapudungun: mariylla
• Middle English: nynetene
• Mongolian: арван ес (arvan jes), арав ес (arav jes) (China)
• Navajo: náhástʼéítsʼáadah
• Norman: dix-neuf, dgiêx-neuf
• Northern Sami: ovccinuppelohkái
• Norwegian: nitten (no)
• Occitan: dètz-e-nòu (oc)
• Ojibwe: ashi-zhaangaswi
• Old Church Slavonic: девѧть на десѧте (devętĭ na desęte) (numeral: ѳ҃і)
• Oriya: ଉଣେଇଶ (uṇeiśô) (numeral: ୧୯ (19))
• Pennsylvania German: neinzeh
• Persian: نوزده‎ (fa) (nuzdah)
• Piedmontese: disneuv
• Polish: dziewiętnaście (pl), (collective) dziewiętnaścioro (pl)
• Portuguese: dezanove (pt) (Portugal), dezenove (pt) (Brazil)
• Punjabi: ਉਨੀਂ (unī̃)
• Quechua: chunka isqunniyuq
• Romagnol: znov
• Romani:

  Kalo Finnish Romani: deȟ-o-enja

• Romanian: nouăsprezece (ro), nouășpe (informal)
• Romansch: (Grischun) deschnov
• Russian: девятна́дцать (ru) (devjatnádcatʹ)
• Rusyn: девятна́дцять (devjatnádcjatʹ)
• S'gaw Karen: တဆံခွံ (ta hsee khwee)
• Samoan: sefulu iva
• Sanskrit: ऊनविंशति (sa) (ūnaviṃśáti), नवदशन् (sa) (návadaśan)
• Santali: ᱜᱮᱞ ᱟᱨᱮ (gel are)
• Scottish Gaelic: naoi deug
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: деветнаест

  Roman: devetnaest

• Shan: သိပ်းၵဝ်ႈ (síp kāo)
• Sinhalese: දහනවය (dahanawaya)
• Skolt Sami: åcmlo
• Slovak: devätnásť (sk)
• Slovene: devetnajst (sl)
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: źewjeśnasćo

  Upper Sorbian: dźewjatnaće (hsb)

• Spanish: diecinueve (es)
• Swedish: nitton (sv)
• Tagalog: labinsiyam (tl)
• Tahitian: hō'ē 'ahuru ma iva
• Tajik: нуздаҳ (tg) (nuzdah)
• Tatar: унтугыз (untuğız)
• Telugu: పంతొమ్మిది (te) (pantommidi)
• Thai: สิบเก้า (th) (sìp-gâao) (numeral: ๑๙)
• Tibetan: བཅུ་དགུ (bcu dgu)
• Tigre: ዐስር ወስዕ (ʿäsr wäsʿ)
• Tigrinya: ዓሰርተ ትሽዓተ (ʿasärtä təšʿatä)
• Tongan: hongofulu mā hiva
• Turkish: on dokuz (tr)
• Turkmen: on dokuz (tk)
• Ukrainian: дев’ятна́дцять (uk) (devʺjatnádcjatʹ)
• Urdu: انیس‎ (unnīs)
• Uyghur: ئون توققۇز‎ (ug) (on toqquz)
• Uzbek: oʻn toʻqqiz (uz)
• Vietnamese: mười chín
• Volapük: degzül, balsezül (older term, obsolete)
• Welsh: pedwar ar bymtheg (cy) m (vigesimal, traditional), pedair ar bymtheg (cy) f (vigesimal, traditional), un deg naw (cy) (decimal)
• West Frisian: njoggentjin (fy)
• Wolof: fukk ak juróom ñeent
• Yakut: уон тоҕус (uon toğus)
• Yiddish: נײַנצן‎ (nayntsn)
• Yup'ik: yuinaunritaraan, yuinaunrita'ar
• Zazaki: newês (diq), desunew
• Zhuang: cib gouj

See also

• Last: eighteen. Next: twenty