sextiotal

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Swedish[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

sextio +‎ tal

Noun[edit]

sextiotal n

  1. around sixty
    Ett sextiotal människor fick föras till sjukhus
    Around sixty people had to be taken to hospital
  2. (usually in the definite "sextiotalet") the 60s (especially the 1960s)

Usage notes[edit]

The -tal suffix is only used for even tens in (sense 1).

Declension[edit]

Declension of sextiotal 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative sextiotal sextiotalet sextiotal sextiotalen
Genitive sextiotals sextiotalets sextiotals sextiotalens

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