seven

See also: Seven

English

English numbers

	70
<  6	7	8  >
Cardinal : seven     Ordinal : seventh     Multiplier : septuple

Alternative forms

• Arabic numerals: 7 (see for numerical forms in other scripts)
• Roman numerals: VII
• sev'n

Etymology

From Middle English [Term?], from Old English seofon (“seven”), from Proto-Germanic *sebun (“seven”), from Proto-Indo-European *septḿ̥ (“seven”). Cognate with Scots sevin (“seven”), West Frisian sân (“seven”), Saterland Frisian soogen (“seven”), Low German söven (“seven”), Dutch zeven (“seven”), German sieben (“seven”), Danish syv (“seven”), Norwegian sju (“seven”), Icelandic sjö (“seven”), Latin septem (“seven”), Ancient Greek ἑπτά (heptá, “seven”), Russian семь (semʹ), Sanskrit सप्तन् (saptán).

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛv.ən/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -ɛvən

Numeral

seven

1. (cardinal) A numerical value equal to 7; the number occurring after six and before eight.

Usage notes

Like other numerals, sometimes used postpositively in Late Middle English and Early Modern English, for exampleː

• Sun and moon set in the heaven, with stars, and the planets seven. (The Towneley plays)

Related terms

• seventh

Translations

cardinal number 7

• Abkhaz: бжьба (bž̍bā)
• Adyghe: блы (blə)
• Afrikaans: sewe
• Ainu: アㇻワン (arwan)
• Albanian: shtatë (sq)
• Alutiiq: mallrungin
• American Sign Language:
• Amharic: ሰባት (am) (säbat) (numeral: ፯ (7))
• Arabic: سَبْعَة (sabʿa), (numeral: ٧ (7))

  Egyptian Arabic: سبعة (sabaʿa)

• Aragonese: siet, siete, set
• Aramaic:

  Hebrew: שבעא m (šabʕā’), שבע f (šbaʕ)

  Syriac: ܫܒܥܐ m (šabʕā’), ܫܒܥ f (šbaʕ)

• Armenian: յոթ (hy) (yotʿ)

  Old Armenian: եօթն (eōtʿn)

• Aromanian: shapti, shapte
• Assamese: please add this translation if you can
• Asturian: siete (ast)
• Aymara: paqallqu
• Azeri: yeddi (az)
• Balinese: pitu
• Bashkir: ете (yete)
• Basque: zazpi (eu)
• Belarusian: сем (be) (sjem), (collective) сямёра (sjamjóra)
• Bengali: সাত (sat) (numeral: ৭)
• Breton: seizh (br)
• Bulgarian: се́дем (bg) (sédem)
• Burmese: ခုနစ် (my) (hku.nac) (numeral: ၇ (7))
• Buryat: долоон (doloon)
• Catalan: set (ca)
• Central Atlas Tamazight: ⵙⴰ (sa)
• Central Dusun: turu
• Chamicuro: kanchis
• Chechen: ворхӏ (worh)
• Cherokee: ᎦᎵᏉᎩ (galiquogi)
• Chichewa: sanu n'ziwiri
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 七 (chat¹)

  Hakka: 七 (chhit)

  Mandarin: 七 (zh) (qī) (numeral: 柒 (zh))

  Min Dong: 七 (ceig)

  Min Nan: 七 (zh-min-nan) (chhit) (Xiamen)

  Wu: 七 (tshiq)

  Xiang: 七 (tshiu)

• Chuvash: ҫиччӗ (śiččĕ), ҫичӗ (śičĕ), ҫич (śič)
• Classical Nahuatl: chicōme
• Coptic: ϣⲁϣϥ (šašf)
• Cornish: seyth
• Corsican: setti (co)
• Crimean Tatar: yedi
• Czech: sedm (cs)
• Dalmatian: sapto
• Danish: syv (da)
• Dena'ina: qents'ughi'i
• Dhivehi: ހަތް (hat)
• Dolgan: һэттэ (hette)
• Dupaningan Agta: pitu
• Dutch: zeven (nl)
• Dzongkha: please add this translation if you can
• Eastern Mari: шымыт (šəmət)
• Erzya: сисем (sisem)
• Esperanto: sep (eo)
• Estonian: seitse (et)
• Evenki: надан (nadan)
• Faroese: sjey (fo)
• Fijian: vitu (fj)
• Finnish: seitsemän (fi)
• French: sept (fr)
• Friulian: siet
• Galician: sete (gl)
• Garifuna: sedü
• Ge'ez: ሰብዐቱ m (säbʿätu), ሰብዑ f (säbʿu) (numeral: ፯ (7))
• Georgian: შვიდი (ka) (švidi)
• German: sieben (de)
• Gilbertese: itiua
• Gothic: 𐍃𐌹𐌱𐌿𐌽 (sibun)
• Greek: επτά (el) (eptá), ζ΄ (z΄) (numeral)

  Ancient Greek: ἑπτά (heptá)

• Greenlandic: arfineq marluk
• Guaraní: pokõi
• Gujarati: સાત (gu) (sāt) (numeral: ૭)
• Haitian Creole: sèt
• Hausa: bakwài
• Hawaiian: hiku, ʻehiku
• Hebrew: שֶׁבַע (he) f (sheva) (used in counting), שִׁבְעָה (he) m (shiv'a)
• Hindi: सात (hi) (sāt) (numeral: ७ (hi) (7))
• Hopi: tsangeʼ
• Hungarian: hét (hu)
• Icelandic: sjö (is)
• Ido: sep (io)
• Ilocano: pito
• Inari Sami: čiččâm
• Indonesian: tujuh (id)
• Interlingua: septe
• Irish: seacht (ga)
• Istriot: siete, sjete
• Istro-Romanian: şåpte
• Italian: sette (it)
• Japanese: 七 (ja) (しち, shichi; なな, nana; ななつ, nanatsu), ７ (ja)
• Javanese: pitu (jv)
• Judeo-Tat: хьэфд (ħəfd)
• Kalmyk: долан (dolan)
• Kannada: ಏಳು (kn) (ēḷu) (numeral: ೭ (kn) (7))
• Karachay-Balkar: джети
• Karelian: seiččemen
• Kashubian: sétmë
• Kazakh: жеті (kk) (jeti)
• Khakas: читi (çiti)
• Khmer: ប្រាំពីរ (km) (pram pii) (numeral: ៧ (7))
• Komi-Zyrian: сізым (sïzym)
• Korean: 일곱 (ko) (ilgop), 칠 (ko) (chil) (七 (ko))
• Kurdish:

  Kurmanji: heft (ku)

  Sorani: حەوت (ḧewt)

• Kyrgyz: жети (ky) (ceti)
• Ladin: set
• Lakota: šakówiŋ
• Lao: ເຈັດ (chet) (numeral: ໗ (7))
• Latgalian: septeni m, septenis f
• Latin: septem (la)
• Latvian: septiņi (lv) m, septiņas f
• Lithuanian: septyni (lt) m, septynios f
• Livonian: seis
• Lojban: ze
• Low German:

  Dutch Low Saxon: söben, söven (nds), seben, seven (nds)

  German Low German: sëwe, sëwen, sæwen, sæben, söven (nds)

• Luxembourgish: siwen (lb)
• Lü: ᦵᦈᧆ (ṫsed) (numeral: ᧗)
• Macedonian: седум (mk) (sedum)
• Madurese: pɛttɔʔ
• Malagasy: fito (mg)
• Malay:

  Jawi: توجوه, ڤيتو, سڤتا

  Rumi: tujuh (ms), pitu (ms), sapta

• Malayalam: ഏഴു (ml) (ēḻu), ഏഴ് (ml) (ēḻ) (numeral: ൭)
• Maltese: sebgħa
• Manchu: ᠨᠠᡩᠠᠨ (nadan)
• Mangarevan: hitu, itu
• Mansi: сат (sāt)
• Manx: shiaght
• Maori: whitu (mi)
• Marathi: सात (sāt)
• Maricopa: paxkieg
• Marshallese: jimjuon
• Middle English: seoven
• Minangkabau: tujuah
• Mirandese: siete
• Moksha: сисем (sisem)
• Mon: ထပှ် (həpɔh)
• Mongolian: долоо (mn) (doloo), ^{(please verify)} ᠳᠣᠯᠤᠭᠠᠨ (ᠳᠣᠯᠤᠭᠠᠨ) (numeral: ᠗)
• Montagnais: (Sheshatshiu Innu) nishuasht, (Mushuau Innu) nishuautash
• Munsee: níishaash
• Muong: páy
• Nahuatl: chicome (nah)
• Nama: hû
• Nauruan: aeiu
• Navajo: tsostsʼid
• Nepali: सात (ne) (sāt)
• Niuean: fitu
• Nogai: ети (yeti)
• North Frisian:

  Föhr-Amrum: sööwen

  Helgoland: seeben

  Mooring and Sylt: soowen

• Northern Sami: čieža
• Norwegian: sju (no), syv (no)
• Novial: set
• O'odham: vevkam
• Occitan: sèt (oc)
• Ojibwe: niizhwaaswi
• Old Church Slavonic:

  Cyrillic: седмь (sedmĭ)

• Old English: seofon
• Old Frisian: siūgun
• Old High German: sibun
• Old Norse: sjau
• Old Turkic: 𐰘𐱅𐰃 (yeti)
• Oriya: ସାତ (sāt) (numeral: ୭)
• Oscan: 𐌔𐌄𐌚𐌕𐌄𐌍 (seften)
• Ossetian: авд (avd)
• Ottoman Turkish: يدی (yedi)
• Pali: सत्त, satta
• Pashto: اوه (uwë)
• Persian: هَفت (fa) (haft) (numeral: ۷)
• Polish: siedem (pl), (collective) siedmioro (pl)
• Portuguese: sete (pt)
• Punjabi: ਸੱਤ (pa) (satt) (numeral: ੭ (7))
• Quechua: qanchis, gancis
• Rajasthani: please add this translation if you can
• Rarotongan: ’itu
• Romanian: șapte (ro)
• Romansch: set, siat, seat
• Russian: семь (ru) (semʹ), (collective) се́меро (ru) (sémero)
• Rusyn: сім (sim)
• S'gaw Karen: နွံ (nwi)
• Samoan: fitu (sm)
• Sanskrit: सप्तन् (sa) (saptan)
• Sardinian: sete, seti
• Saterland Frisian: soogen
• Scots: seiven
• Scottish Gaelic: seachd, (persons) seachdnar m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: седам

  Roman: sedam

• Shan: ၸဵတ်း (tɕet4) (numeral: ႗)
• Sichuan Yi: ꏃ (shyp)
• Sicilian: setti (scn), sietti (scn)
• Sikkimese: དུཨིན (duin)
• Silesian: śedym
• Sindhi: سَتَ (sata)
• Sinhalese: හත (si) (hata)
• Skolt Sami: čiččâm
• Slovak: sedem
• Slovene: sédem (sl)
• Somali: toddoba (so)
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: sedym

  Upper Sorbian: sydom

• Southern Altai: јети (ǰätï)
• Spanish: siete (es)
• Sranan Tongo: seybi
• Swahili: saba (sw)
• Swedish: sju (sv)
• Tagalog: pito (tl)
• Tahitian: hitu
• Tajik: ҳафт (tg) (haft)
• Tamil: ஏழு (ta) (ēḻu) (numeral: ௭ (௭))
• Tashelhit: sa m, f
• Tatar: җиде (tt) (cide)
• Telugu: ఏడు (te) (ēḍu) (numeral: ౭ (te) (7))
• Thai: เจ็ด (th) (jèt) (numeral: ๗ (th))
• Tibetan: བདུན (bdun) (numeral: ༧ (7))
• Tigre: ሰቡዕ (säbuʿ) (numeral: ፯ (7))
• Tigrinya: ሸውዓተ (ti) (šäwʿatä) (numeral: ፯ (7))
• Tocharian A: ṣpät
• Tocharian B: ṣukt
• Tok Pisin: sevenpela
• Tongan: fitu
• Turkish: yedi (tr)
• Turkmen: ýedi (tk)
• Tuvaluan: fitu
• Tuvan: чеди (čädï)
• Tz'utujil: ^{(please verify)} wuku
• Ukrainian: сім (uk) (sim), се́меро (sémero) (collective)
• Unami: nishash
• Urdu: سات (sāt)
• Uyghur: يەتتە (ug) (yette)
• Uzbek: yetti (uz)
• Venetian: sete
• Veps: seicheme
• Vietnamese: bảy (vi)
• Vilamovian: zejwa
• Volapük: vel (vo)
• Votic: seitsee
• Võro: säidse
• Walloon: set (wa)
• Waray-Waray: siete
• Welsh: saith (cy)
• West Frisian: sân (fy)
• White Hmong: xya
• Winnebago: šaagowį
• Wolof: juróom ñaar
• Xhosa: sixhenxe
• Yakut: сэттэ (sette)
• Yiddish: זיבן (zibn)
• Yup'ik: malrunlegen
• Zhuang: caet (Sawndip 七)
• Zulu: sikhombisa
• Zuni: kwilelekk'ya

See also

• Table of cardinal numbers 0 to 9 in various languages

Noun

seven (countable and uncountable, plural sevens)

1. The digit/figure 7 or an occurrence thereof.

   He wrote three sevens on the paper.

2. (countable, card games) A card bearing seven pips.

Translations

the figure seven

• Asturian: siete (ast) m
• Basque: zazpi (eu)
• Belarusian: сямёрка f (sjamjórka)
• Catalan: set (ca) m
• Danish: syvtal n
• Dupaningan Agta: pitu
• Dutch: zeven (nl) f
• Finnish: seiska (fi), seitsemäinen, seitsikko (fi)
• French: sept (fr)
• Galician: sete (gl) m, f
• German: Sieben (de) f

  Alemannic German: sibe

• Hungarian: hetes (hu)
• Khmer: ប្រាំពីរ (km) (pram pi)
• Lithuanian: septynetas (lt) m

• Macedonian: седмица f (sedmica), седумка f (sedumka)
• Norwegian: sjutall n, syvtall n
• Polish: siódemka (pl) f
• Portuguese: sete (pt) m
• Romanian: șapte (ro)
• Russian: семёрка (ru) f (semjórka)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: сѐдмица f

  Roman: sèdmica (sh) f

• Slovak: sedmička f
• Spanish: siete (es)
• Swahili: saba (sw)
• Swedish: sjua (sv) c
• Tagalog: pito (tl)
• Walloon: set (wa)

a card bearing seven pips

• Catalan: set (ca) m
• Danish: syver c
• Dutch: zeven (nl) f
• Finnish: seiska (fi)
• Hungarian: hetes (hu)
• Macedonian: седмица f (sedmica)

• Polish: siódemka (pl) f
• Portuguese: sete (pt) m
• Russian: семёрка (ru) f (semjórka)
• Slovak: sedma f
• Swedish: sjua (sv) c

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout#Translations.

Translations to be checked

• German: ^{(please verify)} Sieben f
• Romanian: (1) ^{(please verify)} șapte m, (2) ^{(please verify)} șeptar m

• Ukrainian: ^{(please verify)} сі́мка f (símka)

Derived terms

Terms derived from the numeral or noun seven

• at sixes and sevens
• dance of the seven veils
• deuce-to-seven lowball
• Group of Seven
• rugby sevens
• seven card stud
• seven deadly sins
• Sevener/sevener
• sevenfold
• Seven Hills of Rome
• seven iron
• seven-league boots
• seven minutes in heaven
• sevenness
• sevennight
• seven out

• sevens
• Seven Sages
• sevenscore
• seven seals
• seven seas
• seven second delay
• Seven Sisters
• Seven Sleepers Day
• sevensome
• seventh
• seven-up
• seven virtues
• Seven Wonders of the World
• seven-year itch
• twenty-four seven
• unseven

See also

Playing cards in English · playing cards (layout · text)
ace	deuce, two	three	four	five	six	seven
eight	nine	ten	jack, knave	queen	king	joker

Statistics

Most common English words before 1923 in Project Gutenberg: political · reading · German · #776: seven · notice · week · stone

Anagrams

• eevns
• evens
• névés

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Breton

Adjective

seven

1. courteous

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Dutch Low Saxon

Numeral

seven

1. Alternative form of zeuven (seven)

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Middle Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈzɛːvən/

Etymology 1

From Old Dutch sivun, sivon, from Proto-Germanic *sebun, from earlier *sebunt, from Proto-Indo-European *septḿ̥, with -t added through influence of "nine" and "ten".

Numeral

sēven

1. seven

Descendants

• Dutch: zeven

Etymology 2

From sēve +‎ -en.

Verb

sēven

1. to sift, to sieve

Inflection

Weak
Indicative	Present	Past
1st singular	sēve	sēefde
2nd singular	sēefs, sēves	sēefdes
3rd singular	sēeft, sēvet	sēefde
1st plural	sēven	sēefden
2nd plural	sēeft, sēvet	sēefdet
3rd plural	sēven	sēefden
Subjunctive	Present	Past
1st singular	sēve	sēefde
2nd singular	sēefs, sēves	sēefdes
3rd singular	sēve	sēefde
1st plural	sēven	sēefden
2nd plural	sēeft, sēvet	sēefdet
3rd plural	sēven	sēefden
Imperative	Present
Singular	sēve
Plural	sēeft, sēvet
	Present	Past
Participle	sēvende	gesēeft

Descendants

• Dutch: zeven

Further reading

• “seven”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• “seven (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, 1929
• “seven (IV)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, 1929

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Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English seven.

Numeral

seven

1. seven

Usage notes

Used when counting; see also sevenpela.

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Turkish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [seven]
• Hyphenation: sev‧en

Adjective

seven (comparative daha seven, superlative en seven)

1. loving, affectionate

Related terms

• sevgi
• sevilen
• sevmek

Noun

seven (definite accusative seveni, plural sevenler)

1. lover (somebody who loves)

Antonyms

• sevmeyen

Declension

declension of seven

	singular (tekil)	plural (çoğul)
nominative (yalın)	seven	sevenler
definite accusative (belirtme)	seveni	sevenleri
dative (yönelme)	sevene	sevenlere
locative (bulunma)	sevende	sevenlerde
ablative (ayrılma)	sevenden	sevenlerden
genitive (tamlayan)	sevenin	sevenlerin

possessive forms of seven

benim (my)	singular (tekil)	plural (çoğul)
nominative (yalın)	sevenim	sevenlerim
definite accusative (belirtme)	sevenimi	sevenlerimi
dative (yönelme)	sevenime	sevenlerime
locative (bulunma)	sevenimde	sevenlerimde
ablative (çıkma)	sevenimden	sevenlerimden
genitive (tamlayan)	sevenimin	sevenlerimin
senin (your)	singular (tekil)	plural (çoğul)
nominative (yalın)	sevenin	sevenlerin
definite accusative (belirtme)	sevenini	sevenlerini
dative (yönelme)	sevenine	sevenlerine
locative (bulunma)	seveninde	sevenlerinde
ablative (çıkma)	seveninden	sevenlerinden
genitive (tamlayan)	seveninin	sevenlerinin
onun (her/his/its)	singular (tekil)	plural (çoğul)
nominative (yalın)	seveni	sevenleri
definite accusative (belirtme)	sevenini	sevenlerini
dative (yönelme)	sevenine	sevenlerine
locative (bulunma)	seveninde	sevenlerinde
ablative (çıkma)	seveninden	sevenlerinden
genitive (tamlayan)	seveninin	sevenlerinin
bizim (our)	singular (tekil)	plural (çoğul)
nominative (yalın)	sevenimiz	sevenlerimiz
definite accusative (belirtme)	sevenimizi	sevenlerimizi
dative (yönelme)	sevenimize	sevenlerimize
locative (bulunma)	sevenimizde	sevenlerimizde
ablative (çıkma)	sevenimizden	sevenlerimizden
genitive (tamlayan)	sevenimizin	sevenlerimizin
sizin (your)	singular (tekil)	plural (çoğul)
nominative (yalın)	seveniniz	sevenleriniz
definite accusative (belirtme)	seveninizi	sevenlerinizi
dative (yönelme)	seveninize	sevenlerinize
locative (bulunma)	seveninizde	sevenlerinizde
ablative (çıkma)	seveninizden	sevenlerinizden
genitive (tamlayan)	seveninizin	sevenlerinizin
onların (their)	singular (tekil)	plural (çoğul)
nominative (yalın)	sevenleri	sevenleri
definite accusative (belirtme)	sevenlerini	sevenlerini
dative (yönelme)	sevenlerine	sevenlerine
locative (bulunma)	sevenlerinde	sevenlerinde
ablative (çıkma)	sevenlerinden	sevenlerinden
genitive (tamlayan)	sevenlerinin	sevenlerinin