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nineteen

num · 3 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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Pronunciation

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  • Received-Pronunciation: /ˈnaɪntiːn/
  • General-American: nīnʹtēn'
  • General-American: /ˈnaɪnˌtin/
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  • Received-Pronunciation: /naɪnˈtiːn/
  • General-American: nīn'tēnʹ
  • General-American: /ˌnaɪnˈtin/
  • rhymes with -iːn
  • CMU ARPABET: N AY1 N T IY1 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

num

Meaning 1

The cardinal number occurring after eighteen and before twenty, represented in Roman numerals as XIX and in Arabic numerals as 19. It is the last/largest of the "teens".

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

adjective satellite

Meaning 2

being one more than eighteen

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: 19, xix

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

the cardinal number that is the sum of eighteen and one

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: 19, XIX

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: large integer

History

Etymology

From Middle English nyntene, nynetene, from Old English niġontīene, niġontēne, from Proto-Germanic *newuntehun. Cognate with Dutch negentien, Low German negenteihn, Hunsrik neinzen, German neunzehn, Danish nitten. Equivalent to nine + -teen

Across languages

Translations

199 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Afrikaans: negentien — cardinal number
  • Afrikaans: neëntien — cardinal number
  • Albanian: nëntëmbëdhjetë — cardinal number
  • Southern Altai: он тогус (on togus) — cardinal number
  • Amharic: አስራ ዘጠኝ (ʾäsra zäṭäñ) — cardinal number
  • Western Apache: ńgóstʼáítsʼádah — cardinal number
  • Arabic: تِسْعَةَ عَشَرَ (tisʕata ʕašara) — cardinal number
  • Arabic: تسعتاشر (tisʕatāšar) — cardinal number
  • Aramaic: תשעסר (tsha‘sar) — cardinal number
  • Aramaic: תשעסרא (tsha‘esrē) — cardinal number
  • Aramaic: ܬܫܥܣܪ (tsha‘sar) — cardinal number
  • Aramaic: ܬܫܥܣܪܐ (tsha'esrē) — cardinal number
  • Armenian: տասնինը (tasninə) — cardinal number
  • Old Armenian: իննեւտասն (innewtasn) — cardinal number
  • Asturian: diecinueve — cardinal number
  • Aymara: tunka llätunkani — cardinal number
  • Azerbaijani: on doqquz — cardinal number
  • Bashkir: ун туғыҙ (un tuğıź) — cardinal number
  • Basque: hemeretzi — cardinal number
  • Belarusian: дзевятна́ццаць (dzjevjatnáccacʹ) — cardinal number
  • Bengali: উনিশ (uniś) — cardinal number
  • Central Bikol: kagsiyam — cardinal number
  • Breton: naontek — cardinal number
  • Bulgarian: деветна́десет (devetnádeset) — cardinal number
  • Bulgarian: деветна́йсет (devetnájset) — cardinal number
  • Burmese: ဆယ့်ကိုး (hcai.kui:) — cardinal number
  • Buryat: арбан юһэн (arban juhen) — cardinal number
  • Carpathian Rusyn: девятна́дцять (devjatnádcjatʹ) — cardinal number
  • Catalan: dinou — cardinal number
  • Cebuano: napulog siyam — cardinal number
  • Chechen: ткъайоьсна (tqʼajösna) — cardinal number
  • Cherokee: ᏐᏁᎳᏚ (soneladu) — cardinal number
  • Chichewa: khumi n'zisanu n'zinayi — cardinal number
  • Chickasaw: awa-chakká'li — cardinal number
  • Chinese Cantonese: 十九 (sap6 gau2) — cardinal number
  • Hakka Chinese: 十九 (sṳ̍p-kiú) — cardinal number
  • Chinese Mandarin: 十九 (shíjiǔ) — cardinal number
  • Chuvash: вунтӑххӑр (vunt̬ăhhăr) — cardinal number
  • Chuvash: вунтӑхӑр (vunt̬ăh̬ăr) — cardinal number
  • Czech: devatenáct — cardinal number
  • Dalmatian: dichinú — cardinal number
  • Danish: nitten — cardinal number
  • Dena'ina: łq'ich'idi beq'di — cardinal number
  • Dhivehi: ނަވާރަ (navāra) — cardinal number
  • Dhivehi: އޮނަވިހި (onavihi) — cardinal number
  • Dutch: negentien — cardinal number
  • Dzongkha: བཅུ་དགུ (bcu dgu) — cardinal number
  • Esperanto: dek naŭ — cardinal number
  • Estonian: üheksateist — cardinal number
  • Fijian: tini ka ciwa — cardinal number
  • Finnish: yhdeksäntoista — cardinal number
  • French: dix-neuf — cardinal number
  • West-Frisian: njoggentjin — cardinal number
  • Galician: dezanove — cardinal number
  • Georgian: ცხრამეტი (cxrameṭi) — cardinal number
  • German: neunzehn — cardinal number
  • Greek: δεκαεννέα (dekaennéa) — cardinal number
  • Greek: δεκαεννιά (dekaenniá) — cardinal number
  • Ancient Greek: ἐννεακαίδεκα (enneakaídeka) — cardinal number
  • Ancient Greek: ιθ ́ — cardinal number
  • Greenlandic: arfersaneq-sisamat — cardinal number
  • Gujarati: ઓગણીસ (ogaṇīs) — cardinal number
  • Haitian Creole: diznèf — cardinal number
  • Hawaiian: ʻumikūmāiwa — cardinal number
  • Hebrew: תְּשַׁע־עֶשְׂרֵה (t'sha esre) — cardinal number
  • Hebrew: תִּשְׁעָה־עָשָׂר (tish'a asar) — cardinal number
  • Hindi: उन्नीस (unnīs) — cardinal number
  • Hopi: pakwt niikyang pevt siikya’ta — cardinal number
  • Hungarian: tizenkilenc — cardinal number
  • Hunsrik: neinzen — cardinal number
  • Icelandic: nítján — cardinal number
  • Ido: dek-e-non — cardinal number
  • Indonesian: sembilan belas — cardinal number
  • Ingrian: yheksäntoist — cardinal number
  • Interlingua: dece-nove — cardinal number
  • Inupiaq: iñuiññaġutaiḷaq — cardinal number
  • Irish: naoi déag — cardinal number
  • Italian: diciannove — cardinal number
  • Japanese: 十九 — cardinal number
  • Javanese: sangalas — cardinal number
  • Kannada: ಹತ್ತೊಂಬತ್ತು (hattombattu) — cardinal number
  • S'gaw Karen: တဆံခွံ (ta hsee khwee) — cardinal number
  • Kazakh: он тоғыз (on toğyz) — cardinal number
  • Khmer: ដប់ប្រាំបួន (dop pram buon) — cardinal number
  • Komi-Permyak: дасӧкмыс (dasökmys) — cardinal number
  • Korean: 열아홉 (yeorahop) — cardinal number
  • Korean: 십구 (sipgu) — cardinal number
  • Central Kurdish: نۆزدە (nozde) — cardinal number
  • Northern Kurdish: nozde — cardinal number
  • Kyrgyz: он тогуз (on toguz) — cardinal number
  • Lakota: akénapčiyuŋka — cardinal number
  • Lao: ສິບເກົ້າ (sip kao) — cardinal number
  • Latin: ūndēvīgintī — cardinal number
  • Latvian: deviņpadsmit — cardinal number
  • Ligurian: dixinêuve — cardinal number
  • Lithuanian: devyniolika — cardinal number
  • Livonian: īdõkstuoistõn — cardinal number
  • Louisiana Creole: diz-nèf — cardinal number
  • Low German: negenteihn — cardinal number
  • Low German: nägenteihn — cardinal number
  • Low German: negenteihn — cardinal number
  • : ᦉᦲᧇᦂᧁᧉ (ṡiibk̇aw2) — cardinal number
  • Luxembourgish: nongzéng — cardinal number
  • Luxembourgish: nonzéng — cardinal number
  • Macedonian: деветна́есет (devetnáeset) — cardinal number
  • Malagasy: sivy ambinifolo — cardinal number
  • Malay: sembilan belas — cardinal number
  • Malay: sepuluh sembilan — cardinal number
  • Malay: satu puluh sembilan — cardinal number
  • Brunei Malay: sambilan balas — cardinal number
  • Malayalam: പത്തൊമ്പത് (pattompatŭ) — cardinal number
  • Maltese: dsatax — cardinal number
  • Manchu: ᠵᡠᠸᠠᠨ ᡠᠶᡠᠨ (juwan uyun) — cardinal number
  • Māori: tekau mā iwa — cardinal number
  • Mapudungun: mariylla — cardinal number
  • Middle English: nyntene — cardinal number
  • Central Sierra Miwok: naˀá·ča- woˀé-ˀ hej·i-ˀ — cardinal number
  • Mongolian: арван ес (arvan jes) — cardinal number
  • Mongolian: арав ес (arav jes) — cardinal number
  • Khiamniungan Naga: tshìekǜlǖkàu — cardinal number
  • Classical Nahuatl: caxtōlli onnāhui — cardinal number
  • Navajo: náhástʼéítsʼáadah — cardinal number
  • Norman: dix-neuf — cardinal number
  • Norman: dgiêx-neuf — cardinal number
  • Norwegian: nitten — cardinal number
  • Occitan: dètz-e-nòu — cardinal number
  • Odia: ଉଣେଇଶ (uṇeiśa) — cardinal number
  • Ojibwe: ashi-zhaangaswi — cardinal number
  • Old Church Slavonic: девѧть на десѧте (devętĭ na desęte) — cardinal number
  • Pennsylvania German: neinzeh — cardinal number
  • Persian: نوزده (nuzdah) — cardinal number
  • Piedmontese: disneuv — cardinal number
  • Polish: dziewiętnaście — cardinal number
  • Polish: dziewiętnaścioro — cardinal number
  • Brazilian Portuguese: dezenove — cardinal number
  • European Portuguese: dezanove — cardinal number
  • Punjabi: ਉੱਨੀ (unnī) — cardinal number
  • Quechua: chunka isqunniyuq — cardinal number
  • Réunion Creole French: diznèf — cardinal number
  • Romagnol: znov — cardinal number
  • Kalo Finnish Romani: deȟ-o-enja — cardinal number
  • Romanian: nouăsprezece — cardinal number
  • Romanian: nouășpe — cardinal number
  • Romansh: deschnov — cardinal number
  • Russian: девятна́дцать (devjatnádcatʹ) — cardinal number
  • Inari-Sami: oovcenubáloh — cardinal number
  • Northern Sami: ovccinuppelohkái — cardinal number
  • Skolt-Sami: åcmlo — cardinal number
  • Samoan: sefulu iva — cardinal number
  • Sanskrit: ऊनविंशति (ūnaviṃśati) — cardinal number
  • Sanskrit: नवदश (návadaśa) — cardinal number
  • Santali: ᱜᱮᱞ ᱟᱨᱮ — cardinal number
  • Scottish Gaelic: naoi-deug — cardinal number
  • Scottish Gaelic: naodh-deug — cardinal number
  • Serbo-Croatian: деветнаест — cardinal number
  • Serbo-Croatian: devetnaest — cardinal number
  • Shan: သိပ်းၵဝ်ႈ (síp kāo) — cardinal number
  • Sikkimese: བཅུ་དགུ (bcu dgu) — cardinal number
  • Sinhalese: දහනවය (dahanawaya) — cardinal number
  • Slovak: devätnásť — cardinal number
  • Slovene: devetnajst — cardinal number
  • Lower Sorbian: źewjeśnasćo — cardinal number
  • Upper Sorbian: dźewjatnaće — cardinal number
  • Spanish: diecinueve — cardinal number
  • Swahili: kumi na tisa — cardinal number
  • Swedish: nitton — cardinal number
  • Tagalog: labinsiyam — cardinal number
  • Tahitian: hō'ē 'ahuru ma iva — cardinal number
  • Tajik: нуздаҳ (nuzdah) — cardinal number
  • Tatar: унтугыз (untuğız) — cardinal number
  • Telugu: పంతొమ్మిది (pantommidi) — cardinal number
  • Thai: สิบเก้า (sìp-gâao) — cardinal number
  • Tibetan: བཅུ་དགུ (bcu dgu) — cardinal number
  • Tigre: ዐስር ወስዕ (ʿäsr wäsʿ) — cardinal number
  • Tigrinya: ዓሰርተ ትሽዓተ (ʿasärtä təšʿatä) — cardinal number
  • Tok Pisin: naintin — cardinal number
  • Tok Pisin: wanpela ten nain — cardinal number
  • Tongan: hongofulu mā hiva — cardinal number
  • Turkish: on dokuz — cardinal number
  • Turkmen: on dokuz — cardinal number
  • Ukrainian: дев’ятна́дцять (devʺjatnádcjatʹ) — cardinal number
  • Urdu: انیس (unnīs) — cardinal number
  • Uyghur: ئون توققۇز (on toqquz) — cardinal number
  • Uzbek: oʻn toʻqqiz — cardinal number
  • Vietnamese: mười chín — cardinal number
  • Volapük: degzül — cardinal number
  • Volapük: balsezül — cardinal number
  • Welsh: pedwar ar bymtheg — cardinal number
  • Welsh: pedair ar bymtheg — cardinal number
  • Welsh: un deg naw — cardinal number
  • Wolof: fukk ak juróom ñeent — cardinal number
  • Yakut: уон тоҕус (uon toğus) — cardinal number
  • Yiddish: נײַנצן (nayntsn) — cardinal number
  • Yucatec Maya: bolonlajun — cardinal number
  • Yup'ik: yuinaunritaraan — cardinal number
  • Yup'ik: yuinaunrita'ar — cardinal number
  • Zazaki: newês (diq) — cardinal number
  • Zazaki: desunew — cardinal number
  • Zhuang: cib gouj — cardinal number