ninety

English

English cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : ninety     Ordinal : ninetieth

Etymology

From Middle English nynety, ninty, nineti, nigneti, from Old English nigontiġ (also as hundnigontiġ (“ninety”)), from Proto-Germanic *newuntēhundą (“ninety”), equivalent to nine +‎ -ty. Cognate with Scots nynty, nynety (“ninety”), Saterland Frisian njuugentich (“ninety”), West Frisian njoggentich (“ninety”), Dutch negentig (“ninety”), German Low German negentig (“ninety”), German neunzig (“ninety”), Swedish nittio (“ninety”), Norwegian t-ninety, Icelandic níutíu (“ninety”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈnaɪn.ti/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈnaɪn.di/, /ˈnaɪn.ti/

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Numeral

ninety

1. The cardinal number occurring after eighty-nine and before ninety-one, represented in Roman numerals as XC and in Arabic numerals as 90.

Synonyms

• Arabic numerals: 90
• Roman numerals: XC

Related terms

• Ordinal: ninetieth

Translations

90

• Afrikaans: negentig (af)
• Albanian: nëntëdhjetë (sq)
• American Sign Language:
• Arabic: تِسْعِينَ‎ (tisʿīna), (only nominative, formal) تِسْعُونَ‎ (tisʿūna)

  Egyptian Arabic: تسعين‎ (tisʿīn)

• Aramaic:

  Hebrew: תשעין‎ c (teshʿīn)

  Syriac: ܬܫܥܝܢ‎ c (teshʿīn)

• Armenian: իննսուն (hy) (innsun)
• Aromanian: noauãdzãts, noauãdzãtsi, noauãdzãtsã
• Asturian: noventa (ast)
• Azerbaijani: doxsan (az)
• Bashkir: туҡһан (tuqhan)
• Basque: laurogeita hamar (eu)
• Belarusian: дзевяно́ста (dzjevjanósta), дзе́вяцьдзесят (dzjévjacʹdzjesjat)
• Bengali: নব্বই (nôbbôi)
• Breton: dek ha pevar-ugent
• Bulgarian: деветдесе́т (devetdesét)
• Burmese: ကိုးဆယ် (kui:hcai)
• Catalan: noranta (ca)
• Central Dusun: siam nohopod
• Chechen: дезткъе итт (deztq̇e itt)
• Cherokee: ᏐᏁᎳᏍᎪᎯ (sonelasgohi)
• Chichewa: makumi asanu ndianayi
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 九十 (zh) (jiǔshí)

  Wu: 九十 (ciéu zoep)

• Crimean Tatar: doqsan
• Czech: devadesát (cs)
• Danish: halvfems (da)
• Dhivehi: ނަވައި‎ (navai), ނުވަދިހަ‎ (nuvadiha)
• Dutch: negentig (nl) f
• Esperanto: naŭdek (eo)
• Estonian: üheksakümmend (et)
• Fijian: ciwasagavulu
• Finnish: yhdeksänkymmentä (fi)
• French:

  (Belgium, Switzerland, Congo-Kinshasa, Rwanda) nonante (fr)

  (France, Canada, former French colonies) quatre-vingt-dix (fr)

• Friulian: nonante
• Galician: noventa (gl)
• Georgian: ოთხმოცდაათი (otxmocdaati)
• German: neunzig (de)

  Alemannic German: nüünzg

• Gothic: 𐌽𐌹𐌿𐌽𐍄𐌴𐌷𐌿𐌽𐌳 (niuntēhund)
• Greek: ενενήντα (el) (enenínta)

  Ancient: ἐνενήκοντα (enenḗkonta), ϟ΄ (ϟ΄) (numeral)

• Hausa: casa'in, tis'in
• Hawaiian: kanaiwa
• Hebrew: תִּשְׁעִים‎ m, f (tishʿím)
• Hindi: नब्बे (hi) (nabbe), नव्वे (navve)
• Hungarian: kilencven (hu)
• Hunsrik: neinzich
• Ido: nonadek (io)
• Indonesian: sembilan puluh
• Interlingua: novanta
• Irish: nócha (ga)
• Italian: novanta (it)
• Japanese: 九十 (ja) (きゅうじゅう, kyūjū, くじゅう, kujū)
• Karachay-Balkar: токъсан (toqsan)
• Kazakh: тоқсан (kk) (toqsan)
• Khmer: កៅសិប (km) (kawsəp)
• Komi-Permyak: ӧкмысдас (ökmysdas)
• Korean: 구십 (ko) (gusip) (九十 (ko)), 아흔 (ko) (aheun)
• Kurdish: not (ku), nod (ku), nehwed (ku), نه‌وه‌ت‎ (newet)
• Kyrgyz: токсон (ky) (tokson)
• Ladin: nonanta
• Lakota: wikčémna napčíyuŋka
• Lao: ເກົ້າສິບ (kao sip)

• Latin: nonaginta
• Latvian: deviņdesmit (lv)
• Lithuanian: devyniasdešimt (lt)
• Livonian: īdõkskimdõ
• Low German:

  German Low German: niëgentig (nds) (Münsterländisch), niegensig (Münsterländisch)

• Luxembourgish: nonzeg
• Macedonian: деведесет (devedeset)
• Malay: sembilan puluh
• Maltese: disgħin
• Mansi: онтэлсат (ontəlsat)
• Manx: kiare feed as jeig
• Maore Comorian: tuswini
• Maori: iwa tekau (mi)
• Mongolian: ер (mn) (jer)
• Nauruan: aduma
• Navajo: náhástʼédiin
• Norman: nénante
• Northern Sami: ovccilogi
• Norwegian: nitti (no)
• Novial: ninanti
• Occitan: nonanta (oc)
• Ojibwe: zhaangasimidana
• Old Church Slavonic: девѧть десѧтъ (devętĭ desętŭ)
• Persian: نَوَد‎ (fa) (navad)
• Polish: dziewięćdziesiąt (pl)
• Portuguese: noventa (pt)
• Quechua: isqun chunka
• Romanian: nouăzeci (ro)
• Romansch: novanta, navonta, novànta, nonaunta
• Russian: девяно́сто (ru) (devjanósto)
• Samoan: ivasefulu
• Sanskrit: नवति (sa) (navatí)
• Sardinian: nobanta, nonanta, noranta
• Scottish Gaelic: (old system) ceithir fichead 's a deich, (new system) naochad
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: деведесет

  Roman: devedeset

• Shan: ၵဝ်ႈသိပ်း (kāw síp)
• Sicilian: novanta (scn)
• Sinhalese: අනූව (anūva)
• Slovak: devätdesiat
• Slovene: devetdeset (sl)
• Southern Altai: тогузон (toguzon)
• Spanish: noventa (es)
• Swahili: tisini (sw)
• Swedish: nittio (sv)
• Tagalog: siyamnapu
• Tahitian: iva 'ahuru
• Tajik: навад (tg) (navad)
• Tatar: туксан (tt) (tuqsan)
• Telugu: తొంభై (tombhai)
• Thai: เก้าสิบ (gâao-sìp)
• Tibetan: དགུ་བཅུ (dgu bcu)
• Tongan: hivangofulu
• Turkish: doksan (tr)
• Turkmen: togsan (tk)
• Udmurt: укмыстон (ukmyston)
• Ukrainian: дев'яно́сто (uk) (devʺjanósto)
• Unami: pèshkunk txinxke
• Urdu: نوے‎ (navve)
• Uzbek: toʻqson (uz)
• Venetian: nonanta (vec)
• Vietnamese: chín mươi
• Volapük: züldeg (vo)
• Walloon: nonante (wa)
• Welsh: deg ar pedwar ugain (vigesimal, traditional), naw deg (cy) (decimal)
• West Frisian: njoggentich
• Yiddish: נײַנציק‎ (nayntsik)
• Yup'ik: yuinaat cetaman qula

See also

• Last: eighty-nine, eighty
• Next: ninety-one, hundred

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