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English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Middle English sextene, sixtene, from Old English sixtīene, from Proto-Germanic *sehstehun. Cognate with West Frisian sechstjin, Dutch zestien, German sechzehn, Danish seksten. Equivalent to six + -teen.
Pronunciation
- (next word stressed near the first syllable)
- (UK, US) IPA(key): /ˈsɪks.tiːn/
- (next word stressed after the first syllable)
- (UK, US) IPA(key): /ˌsɪksˈtiːn/
- Rhymes: -iːn
Numeral
sixteen
- The cardinal number occurring after fifteen and before seventeen, represented in Arabic numerals as 16 and in Roman numerals as XVI.
Derived terms
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Translations
cardinal number 16
- Afrikaans: sestien (af)
- Albanian: gjashtëmbëdhjetë (sq)
- American Sign Language: (please verify)
- Amharic: አስራ ስድስት (ʾäsra sədsət)
- Arabic: سِتَّةَ عَشَرَ (sittata ʕašara)
- Egyptian Arabic: ستاشر (sittāšar)
- Aragonese: please add this translation if you can
- Aramaic:
- Hebrew: שתעסר m (shta‘sar), שתעסרא f (shta‘esrē)
- Armenian: տասնվեց (hy) (tasnvecʻ)
- Asturian: dieciséis (ast), selce (ast)
- Aymara: tunka suxtani
- Azerbaijani: on altı (az)
- Bashkir: ун алты (un altı)
- Basque: hamasei (eu)
- Belarusian: шасна́ццаць (be) (šasnáccacʹ)
- Bengali: সোলো (śōlō) (numeral: ১৬)
- Bikol Central: kag-anom
- Breton: c'hwezek (br)
- Brunei Malay: anam balas
- Bulgarian: шестна́десет (šestnádeset), шестна́йсет (šestnájset)
- Burmese: ဆယ့်ခြောက် (hcai.hkrauk) (numeral: ၁၆)
- Buryat: арбан зургаан (arban zurgaan)
- Carpathian Rusyn: шістна́дцять (šistnádcjatʹ)
- Catalan: setze (ca)
- Cebuano: napulog unom
- Central Sierra Miwok: naˀá·ča- tém·ok·a-ˀ hej·i-ˀ
- Chechen: ялхитта (jalxitta)
- Cherokee: ᏓᎳᏚ (daladu)
- Chichewa: khumi n'zisanu n'chimodzi
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 十六 (sap6 luk6)
- Hakka: 十六 (sṳ̍p-liuk)
- Mandarin: 十六 (zh) (shíliù)
- Chuvash: вунулттӑ (vunulttă), вунултӑ (vunult̬ă), вунулт (vunult)
- Classical Nahuatl: caxtōlli oncē
- Classical Syriac: ܫܬܥܣܪ m (shta‘sar), ܫܬܥܣܪܐ f (shta‘esrē)
- Crimean Tatar: on altı
- Czech: šestnáct (cs)
- Dalmatian: setco
- Danish: seksten (da)
- Dena'ina: k'uzhch'en'i beq'di
- Dhivehi: ސޯޅަ (sōḷa)
- Dutch: zestien (nl) f
- Dzongkha: བཅུ་དྲུག (bcu drug)
- Esperanto: dek ses
- Estonian: kuusteist (et)
- Fijian: tini ka ono
- Finnish: kuusitoista (fi)
- French: seize (fr)
- Friulian: sedis
- Galician: dezaseis (gl)
- Georgian: თექვსმეტი (ka) (tekvsmeṭi)
- German: sechzehn (de)
- Greek: δεκαέξι (el) (dekaéxi)
- Ancient: ἑκκαίδεκα (hekkaídeka), ιϛ΄ (numeral)
- Greenlandic: arfersanillit (kl)
- Haitian Creole: sèz
- Hawaiian: ʻumikūmāono
- Hebrew: שֵׁשׁ עֶשְׂרֵה f (shesh esré) (used in counting), שישה עשר \ שִׁשָּׁה עָשָׂר m (shishá asár)
- Hindi: सोलह (hi) (solah)
- Hopi: pakwt niikyang navay siikya’ta
- Hungarian: tizenhat (hu)
- Hunsrik: sechzen
- Icelandic: sextán (is)
- Ido: dek-e-sis (io)
- Inari Sami: kuttnubáloh
- Indonesian: enam belas (id)
- Ingrian: kuustoist
- Interlingua: dece-sex
- Irish: sé déag
- Italian: sedici (it) m
- Japanese: 十六 (ja) (じゅうろく, jūroku)
- Kannada: ಹದಿನಾರು (kn) (hadināru)
- Kazakh: он алты (on alty)
- Khmer: ដប់ប្រាំមួយ (dop pram muoy) (numeral: ១៦)
- Komi-Permyak: дасквать (daskvať)
- Korean: 열여섯 (ko) (yeoryeoseot), 십육(十六) (ko) (simnyuk), 십륙 (simnyuk) (North Korea)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: شانزە (şanze)
- Northern Kurdish: şazde (ku)
- Kyrgyz: он алты (ky) (on altı)
- Ladin: please add this translation if you can
- Lakota: akéšakpe
- Lao: ສິບຫົກ (sip hok) (numeral: ໑໖)
- Latin: sēdecim (la)
- Latvian: sešpadsmit (lv)
- Ligurian: sézze
- Lithuanian: sešiolika
- Livonian: kūžtuoistõn
- Lombard: sèdes
- Louisiana Creole French: sèz
- Low German: sössteihn (nds), sossteihn
- German Low German: sössteihn (nds)
- Lü: ᦉᦲᧇᦷᦠᧅ (ṡiibḣok) (numeral: ᧑᧖)
- Luxembourgish: siechzéng (lb)
- Macedonian: шесна́есет (šesnáeset)
- Malagasy: enina ambinifolo
- Malay: enam belas (ms), sepuluh enam, satu puluh enam
- Malayalam: പതിനാറ് (ml) (patināṟŭ)
- Maltese: sittax
- Manchu: ᠵᡠᠸᠠᠨ
ᠨᡳᠩᡤᡠᠨ (juwan ninggun)
- Maori: tekau mā ono (mi)
- Mapudungun: marikayu
- Middle English: sixtene
- Mongolian: арван зургаа (mn) (arvan zurgaa)
- Navajo: hastą́ʼáadah
- Norman: seize
- Northern Mansi: (please verify) хотхуйплов (hothujplow)
- Northern Sami: guhttanuppelohkái
- Norwegian: seksten (no)
- Occitan: setze (oc)
- Odia: ଶୋଳ (śoḷô) (numeral: ୧୬ (16))
- Ojibwe: ashi-ingodwaaswi
- Old Church Slavonic: шесть на десѧте (šestĭ na desęte) (numeral: ѕ҃і)
- Pashto: شپاړس (ps) (špâṛës)
- Pennsylvania German: sechzeh, sexzeh, sechtzay
- Persian: شانزده (fa) (šânzdah)
- Piedmontese: sëddes
- Polish: szesnaście (pl), (collective) szesnaścioro (pl)
- Portuguese: dezasseis (pt) (Portugal), dezesseis (pt) (Brazil)
- Punjabi: ਸੋਲਾਂ (pa) (solā̃)
- Quechua: chunka suqtayuq
- Romagnol: seṣ, ségg
- Romani:
- Kalo Finnish Romani: deȟ-o-ȟou
- Romanian: șaisprezece (ro), șaișpe (informal)
- Romansch: (Grischun, Surmiran) sedesch, (Puter, Vallader) saidesch, (Sursilvan) sedisch
- Russian: шестна́дцать (ru) (šestnádcatʹ)
- S'gaw Karen: တဆံဃု (ta hsee xu)
- Samoan: sefulu ono
- Samogitian: šešiuolėka
- Sanskrit: षोडशन् (sa) (ṣóḍaśan)
- Santali: ᱜᱮᱞ ᱛᱩᱨᱩᱭ (gel turuy)
- Sardinian: sedichi, seghi, segi, seighi
- Scottish Gaelic: sia deug
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: шеснаест
- Roman: šesnaest
- Shan: သိပ်းႁူၵ်း (síp húuk)
- Sinhalese: දහසය (dahasaya)
- Skolt Sami: kutmlo
- Slovak: šestnásť (sk)
- Slovene: šestnajst (sl)
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: šesnasćo
- Upper Sorbian: šěsnaće
- Spanish: dieciséis (es) m
- Swahili: kumi na sita
- Swedish: sexton (sv)
- Tagalog: labing-anim (tl)
- Tahitian: hō'ē 'ahuru ma ono
- Tajik: шонздаҳ (tg) (šonzdah)
- Tatar: уналты (unaltı)
- Telugu: పదహారు (te) (padahāru)
- Thai: สิบหก (th) (sìp-hòk) (numeral: ๑๖)
- Tibetan: བཅུ་དྲུག (bcu drug)
- Tigre: ዐስር ወስስ (ʿäsr wäss)
- Tigrinya: ዓሰርተ ሽድሽተ (ʿasärtä šədšətä)
- Tok Pisin: sikistin, wanpela ten sikis
- Tongan: hongofulu mā ono
- Turkish: on altı (tr)
- Turkmen: on alty (tk)
- Ukrainian: шістна́дцять (uk) (šistnádcjatʹ)
- Urdu: سولہ (solah)
- Uyghur: ئون ئالتە (ug) (on alte)
- Vietnamese: mười sáu
- Volapük: degmäl, balsemäl (older term, obsolete)
- Welsh: un ar bymtheg (cy) (vigesimal, traditional), un deg chwech (cy) (decimal)
- West Frisian: sechstjin (fy)
- Wolof: fukk ak juróom benn
- Yakut: уон алта (uon alta)
- Yiddish: זעכצן (zekhtsn)
- Yup'ik: akimiaq atauciq
- Zazaki: desuses, sestês
- Zhuang: cib loeg
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See also
Anagrams
Middle English
Numeral
sixteen
- Alternative form of sixtene
