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• UK, US: /ˈsɪks.tiːn/
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• UK, US: /ˌsɪksˈtiːn/
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Inherited 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.

210 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: sestien — cardinal number 16
• Albanian: gjashtëmbëdhjetë — cardinal number 16
• Southern Altai: он алты (on altï) — cardinal number 16
• Amharic: አስራ ስድስት (ʾäsra sədsət) — cardinal number 16
• Arabic: سِتَّةَ عَشَرَ (sittata ʕašara) — cardinal number 16
• Arabic: ستاشر (sittāšar) — cardinal number 16
• Aragonese: deciséis — cardinal number 16
• Aragonese: decisiéis — cardinal number 16
• Aragonese: setze — cardinal number 16
• Aramaic: ܫܬܥܣܪ (shta‘sar) — cardinal number 16
• Aramaic: ܫܬܥܣܪܐ (shta‘esrē) — cardinal number 16
• Aramaic: שתעסר (shta‘sar) — cardinal number 16
• Aramaic: שתעסרא (shta‘esrē) — cardinal number 16
• Armenian: տասնվեց (tasnvecʻ) — cardinal number 16
• Asturian: dieciséis — cardinal number 16
• Asturian: selce — cardinal number 16
• Aymara: tunka suxtani — cardinal number 16
• Azerbaijani: on altı — cardinal number 16
• Bashkir: ун алты (un altı) — cardinal number 16
• Basque: hamasei — cardinal number 16
• Belarusian: шасна́ццаць (šasnáccacʹ) — cardinal number 16
• Bengali: সোলো (śōlō) — cardinal number 16
• Central Bikol: kag-anom — cardinal number 16
• Breton: c'hwezek — cardinal number 16
• Bulgarian: шестна́десет (šestnádeset) — cardinal number 16
• Bulgarian: шестна́йсет (šestnájset) — cardinal number 16
• Burmese: ဆယ့်ခြောက် (hcai.hkrauk) — cardinal number 16
• Buryat: арбан зургаан (arban zurgaan) — cardinal number 16
• Carpathian Rusyn: шістна́дцять (šistnádcjatʹ) — cardinal number 16
• Catalan: setze — cardinal number 16
• Cebuano: napulog unom — cardinal number 16
• Chechen: йалхитта (jalxitta) — cardinal number 16
• Cherokee: ᏓᎳᏚ (daladu) — cardinal number 16
• Chichewa: khumi n'zisanu n'chimodzi — cardinal number 16
• Chinese Cantonese: 十六 (sap6 luk6) — cardinal number 16
• Hakka Chinese: 十六 (sṳ̍p-liuk) — cardinal number 16
• Chinese Mandarin: 十六 (shíliù) — cardinal number 16
• Chuvash: вунулттӑ (vunulttă) — cardinal number 16
• Chuvash: вунултӑ (vunult̬ă) — cardinal number 16
• Chuvash: вунулт (vunult) — cardinal number 16
• Cornish: hwetek — cardinal number 16
• Crimean Tatar: on altı — cardinal number 16
• Czech: šestnáct — cardinal number 16
• Dalmatian: setco — cardinal number 16
• Danish: seksten — cardinal number 16
• Dena'ina: k'uzhch'en'i beq'di — cardinal number 16
• Dhivehi: ސޯޅަ (sōḷa) — cardinal number 16
• Dutch: zestien — cardinal number 16
• Dzongkha: བཅུ་དྲུག — cardinal number 16
• Esperanto: dek ses — cardinal number 16
• Estonian: kuusteist — cardinal number 16
• Fijian: tini ka ono — cardinal number 16
• Finnish: kuusitoista — cardinal number 16
• French: seize — cardinal number 16
• Middle French: seze — cardinal number 16
• Old French: seize — cardinal number 16
• West-Frisian: sechstjin — cardinal number 16
• Friulian: sedis — cardinal number 16
• Galician: dezaseis — cardinal number 16
• Georgian: თექვსმეტი (tekvsmeṭi) — cardinal number 16
• German: sechzehn — cardinal number 16
• Greek: δεκαέξι (dekaéxi) — cardinal number 16
• Ancient Greek: ἑκκαίδεκα (hekkaídeka) — cardinal number 16
• Ancient Greek: ιϛ ́ — cardinal number 16
• Greenlandic: arfersanillit — cardinal number 16
• Gujarati: સોળ (soḷ) — cardinal number 16
• Haitian Creole: sèz — cardinal number 16
• Hawaiian: ʻumikūmāono — cardinal number 16
• Hebrew: שֵׁשׁ עֶשְׂרֵה (shesh esré) — cardinal number 16
• Hebrew: שישה עשר \ שִׁשָּׁה עָשָׂר (shishá asár) — cardinal number 16
• Hindi: सोलह (solah) — cardinal number 16
• Hopi: pakwt niikyang navay siikya’ta — cardinal number 16
• Hungarian: tizenhat — cardinal number 16
• Hunsrik: sechzen — cardinal number 16
• Icelandic: sextán — cardinal number 16
• Ido: dek-e-sis — cardinal number 16
• Indonesian: enam belas — cardinal number 16
• Ingrian: kuustoist — cardinal number 16
• Interlingua: dece-sex — cardinal number 16
• Inupiaq: akimiaq atausiq — cardinal number 16
• Irish: sé déag — cardinal number 16
• Italian: sedici — cardinal number 16
• Japanese: 十六 (jūroku) — cardinal number 16
• Kannada: ಹದಿನಾರು (hadināru) — cardinal number 16
• S'gaw Karen: တဆံဃု (ta hsee xu) — cardinal number 16
• Kazakh: он алты (on alty) — cardinal number 16
• Khmer: ដប់ប្រាំមួយ (dop pram muoy) — cardinal number 16
• Komi-Permyak: дасквать (daskvať) — cardinal number 16
• Korean: 열여섯 (yeoryeoseot) — cardinal number 16
• Korean: 십육 (simnyuk) — cardinal number 16
• Korean: 십륙 (simnyuk) — cardinal number 16
• Central Kurdish: شانزە (şanze) — cardinal number 16
• Northern Kurdish: şazde — cardinal number 16
• Kyrgyz: он алты (on altı) — cardinal number 16
• Ladino: דייזיסיש — cardinal number 16
• Ladino: diezisesh — cardinal number 16
• Lakota: akéšakpe — cardinal number 16
• Lao: ສິບຫົກ (sip hok) — cardinal number 16
• Latin: sēdecim — cardinal number 16
• Latvian: sešpadsmit — cardinal number 16
• Ligurian: sézze — cardinal number 16
• Lithuanian: sešiolika — cardinal number 16
• Livonian: kūžtuoistõn — cardinal number 16
• Lombard: sèdes — cardinal number 16
• Louisiana Creole: sèz — cardinal number 16
• Low German: sössteihn — cardinal number 16
• Low German: sossteihn — cardinal number 16
• Low German: sössteihn — cardinal number 16
• Lü: ᦉᦲᧇᦷᦠᧅ (ṡiibḣok) — cardinal number 16
• Luxembourgish: siechzéng — cardinal number 16
• Macedonian: шесна́есет (šesnáeset) — cardinal number 16
• Malagasy: enina ambinifolo — cardinal number 16
• Malay: enam belas — cardinal number 16
• Malay: sepuluh enam — cardinal number 16
• Malay: satu puluh enam — cardinal number 16
• Brunei Malay: anam balas — cardinal number 16
• Malayalam: പതിനാറ് (patināṟŭ) — cardinal number 16
• Maltese: sittax — cardinal number 16
• Manchu: ᠵᡠᠸᠠᠨ ᠨᡳᠩᡤᡠᠨ (juwan ninggun) — cardinal number 16
• Māori: tekau mā ono — cardinal number 16
• Mapudungun: marikayu — cardinal number 16
• Middle English: sixtene — cardinal number 16
• Central Sierra Miwok: naˀá·ča- tém·ok·a-ˀ hej·i-ˀ — cardinal number 16
• Mongolian: арван зургаа (arvan zurgaa) — cardinal number 16
• Khiamniungan Naga: tshìekǜlǖvōk — cardinal number 16
• Classical Nahuatl: caxtōlli oncē — cardinal number 16
• Navajo: hastą́ʼáadah — cardinal number 16
• Norman: seize — cardinal number 16
• Norwegian: seksten — cardinal number 16
• Occitan: setze — cardinal number 16
• Odia: ଶୋଳ (śoḷa) — cardinal number 16
• Ojibwe: ashi-ingodwaaswi — cardinal number 16
• Old Church Slavonic: шесть на десѧте (šestĭ na desęte) — cardinal number 16
• Pashto: شپاړس (špâṛës) — cardinal number 16
• Pennsylvania German: sechzeh — cardinal number 16
• Pennsylvania German: sexzeh — cardinal number 16
• Pennsylvania German: sechtzay — cardinal number 16
• Persian: شانزده (šânzdah) — cardinal number 16
• Piedmontese: sëddes — cardinal number 16
• Polish: szesnaście — cardinal number 16
• Polish: szesnaścioro — cardinal number 16
• Portuguese: dezasseis — cardinal number 16
• Portuguese: dezesseis — cardinal number 16
• Punjabi: ਸੋਲਾਂ (solā̃) — cardinal number 16
• Quechua: chunka suqtayuq — cardinal number 16
• Romagnol: seṣ — cardinal number 16
• Romagnol: ségg — cardinal number 16
• Kalo Finnish Romani: deȟ-o-ȟou — cardinal number 16
• Romanian: șaisprezece — cardinal number 16
• Romanian: șaișpe — cardinal number 16
• Romansh: sedesch — cardinal number 16
• Romansh: saidesch — cardinal number 16
• Romansh: sedisch — cardinal number 16
• Russian: шестна́дцать (šestnádcatʹ) — cardinal number 16
• Inari-Sami: kuttnubáloh — cardinal number 16
• Northern Sami: guhttanuppelohkái — cardinal number 16
• Skolt-Sami: kutmlo — cardinal number 16
• Samoan: sefulu ono — cardinal number 16
• Samogitian: šešiuolėka — cardinal number 16
• Sanskrit: षोडश (ṣóḍaśa) — cardinal number 16
• Santali: ᱜᱮᱞ ᱛᱩᱨᱩᱭ (gel turuy) — cardinal number 16
• Sardinian: sedichi — cardinal number 16
• Sardinian: seghi — cardinal number 16
• Sardinian: segi — cardinal number 16
• Sardinian: seighi — cardinal number 16
• Scottish Gaelic: sia-deug — cardinal number 16
• Serbo-Croatian: шеснаест — cardinal number 16
• Serbo-Croatian: šesnaest — cardinal number 16
• Shan: သိပ်းႁူၵ်း (síp húuk) — cardinal number 16
• Sikkimese: བཅུ་དྲུག — cardinal number 16
• Sinhalese: දහසය (dahasaya) — cardinal number 16
• Slovak: šestnásť — cardinal number 16
• Slovene: šestnajst — cardinal number 16
• Lower Sorbian: šesnasćo — cardinal number 16
• Upper Sorbian: šěsnaće — cardinal number 16
• Spanish: dieciséis m sece — cardinal number 16
• Old Spanish: seze — cardinal number 16
• Swahili: kumi na sita — cardinal number 16
• Swedish: sexton — cardinal number 16
• Tagalog: labing-anim — cardinal number 16
• Tahitian: hō'ē 'ahuru ma ono — cardinal number 16
• Tajik: шонздаҳ (šonzdah) — cardinal number 16
• Tamil: பதினாறு (patiṉāṟu) — cardinal number 16
• Tatar: уналты (unaltı) — cardinal number 16
• Telugu: పదహారు (padahāru) — cardinal number 16
• Thai: สิบหก (sìp-hòk) — cardinal number 16
• Tibetan: བཅུ་དྲུག — cardinal number 16
• Tigre: ዐስር ወስስ (ʿäsr wäss) — cardinal number 16
• Tigrinya: ዓሰርተ ሽድሽተ (ʿasärtä šədšətä) — cardinal number 16
• Tok Pisin: sikistin — cardinal number 16
• Tok Pisin: wanpela ten sikis — cardinal number 16
• Tongan: hongofulu mā ono — cardinal number 16
• Turkish: on altı — cardinal number 16
• Turkmen: on alty — cardinal number 16
• Ukrainian: шістна́дцять (šistnádcjatʹ) — cardinal number 16
• Urdu: سولہ (solah) — cardinal number 16
• Uyghur: ئون ئالتە (on alte) — cardinal number 16
• Vietnamese: mười sáu — cardinal number 16
• Volapük: degmäl — cardinal number 16
• Volapük: balsemäl — cardinal number 16
• Welsh: un ar bymtheg — cardinal number 16
• Welsh: un deg chwech — cardinal number 16
• Wolof: fukk ak juróom benn — cardinal number 16
• Yakut: уон алта (uon alta) — cardinal number 16
• Yiddish: זעכצן (zekhtsn) — cardinal number 16
• Yucatec Maya: waaklajun — cardinal number 16
• Yup'ik: akimiaq atauciq — cardinal number 16
• Zazaki: desuses — cardinal number 16
• Zazaki: sestês — cardinal number 16
• Zhuang: cib loeg — cardinal number 16