ninety-nine

English

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Cardinal: ninety-nine     Ordinal: ninety-ninth     Adverbial: ninety-nine times

Pronunciation

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Numeral

ninety-nine

1. The cardinal number immediately following ninety-eight and preceding one hundred.

Synonyms

• Arabic numerals: 99
• Roman numerals: XCIX

Translations

cardinal number 99

• Arabic: تِسْعَة وَتِسْعُيون (tisʿa wa-tisʿūn)
• Azerbaijani: doxsan doqquz (az)
• Basque: laurogeita hemeretzi (eu)
• Belarusian: дзевяно́ста дзе́вяць (dzjevjanósta dzjévjacʹ)
• Bengali: নিরানব্বই (niranôbbôi)
• Catalan: noranta-nou (ca)
• Cherokee: ᏐᏁᎳᏍᎪ ᏐᏁᎳ (sonelasgo sonela)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 九十九 (jiǔshíjiǔ)

• Danish: nioghalvfems
• Dutch: negenennegentig (nl)
• Esperanto: naŭdek naŭ
• Finnish: yhdeksänkymmentäyhdeksän
• French: quatre-vingt-dix-neuf (fr)
• Georgian: ოთხმოცდაცხრამეტი (otxmocdacxrameṭi)
• German: neunundneunzig (de)
• Greek: ενενήντα εννέα (enenínta ennéa)
• Haitian Creole: katrevendiznèf
• Hebrew: תשעים־ותשעה (tiším və-téyša)
• Hindi: निन्यानवे (hi) (ninyānve)
• Hungarian: kilencvenkilenc (hu)
• Icelandic: nítíuogníu
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• Italian: novantanove (it)
• Japanese: 九十九 (kyū-jū-kyū)
• Korean: 아흔 아홉 (aheun ahop), 구십구 (ko) (gusipgu)
• Lao: ເກົ້າສິບເກົ້າ (kao sip kao)
• Latin: ūndēcentum
• Lithuanian: devyniasdešimt devyni
• Malay: sembilan puluh sembilan
• Maori: iwa tekau mā iwa, iwa ngahuru mā iwa (older term)
• Navajo: náhástʼédiin dóó baʼąą náhástʼéí
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: nittini

  Nynorsk: nittini

• Old English: nigon and hundnigontiġ
• Polish: dziewięćdziesiąt dziewięć
• Portuguese: noventa e nove
• Russian: девяно́сто де́вять (ru) (devjanósto dévjatʹ)
• Sanskrit: नवनवति (sa) (navanavati), एकोनशत (ekonaśata)
• Spanish: noventa y nueve
• Swedish: nittionio (sv)
• Turkish: doksan dokuz
• Ukrainian: дев'яно́сто де́в'ять (devʺjanósto dévʺjatʹ)
• Vietnamese: chín mươi chín

• Yup'ik: yuinaat cetaman qula qulngunritaraan

Noun

ninety-nine (countable and uncountable, plural ninety-nines)

1. (countable) A traditional British ice cream cone with a flaky chocolate bar inserted, usually made with soft serve.
2. (uncountable) A simple card game with a running total, players dropping out if they would be forced to bring the total above ninety-nine.

Synonyms

• (ice-cream cone): 99 Flake