forty

forty

See also: förty

English

English numbers ^(edit)

		400
←  30	←  39	40	41  →	50  →
		4
Cardinal: forty     Ordinal: fortieth     Adverbial: forty times     Multiplier: fortyfold

Alternative forms

• fourty (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English fourti, feortiȝ, from Old English fēowertiġ, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *fedwōr tigiwiz (“forty”).

Pronunciation

• (UK, General Australian, New Zealand) enPR: fô'tē, IPA^(key): /fɔːtiː/
• (General American) enPR: fôr'tē, IPA^(key): /ˈfɔɹti/, [ˈfɔɹɾi]
  • (St. Louis (Missouri)) IPA^(key): [ˈfɑɹɾij]

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• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)ti
• Hyphenation: for‧ty

Numeral

forty

1. The cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine and before forty-one.
   • 1825, unknown, Harrison's Amusing Picture and Poetry Book, page 35:

     'Tis forty years this very day,
     Since you and I, old girl, were married.

Usage notes

• In modern usage, the spelling fourty is nonstandard.

Synonyms

• Arabic numerals: 40
• Roman numerals: XL

Derived terms

• back forty
• forty-leven
• forty-something
• forty-spot
• pianny forty
• pianny-forty
• top forty
• two-forty on a plank road

 

Related terms

• Ordinal: fortieth
• home forty

Translations

the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine

Afrikaans: veertig (af) Albanian: dyzet (sq) Arabic: أَرْبَعِينَ‎ (ʔarbaʕīna), (only nominative, formal) أَرْبَعُون‎ (ʔarbaʕūn), (numeral) ٤٠‎ (40) Egyptian Arabic: أربعين‎ (ʾarbaʿīn) Aramaic: Hebrew: ארבעין‎ c (arb‘īn) Syriac: ܐܪܒܥܝܢ‎ c (arb‘īn) Armenian: քառասուն (hy) (kʿaṙasun) Aromanian: patrudzãts, patrudzãtsi Assamese: চল্লিছ (sollis) Asturian: cuarenta (ast) Avar: кӏикъого (kʼiqxʼogo) Azerbaijani: qırx (az) Bashkir: ҡырҡ (qırq) Basque: berrogei (eu) Belarusian: со́рак (sórak) Bengali: চল্লিশ (bn) (côlliś) Biatah Bidayuh: pat puru Bikol Central: apat na pulo Breton: daou-ugent (br) Bulgarian: четири́десет (četirídeset), четири́йсет (četiríjset) Burmese: လေးဆယ် (le:hcai) Catalan: quaranta (ca) Chakma: please add this translation if you can Chamicuro: ma'pojtamala chunka Chamorro: kuårenta Chechen: шовзткъа (šowztqʼa) Cherokee: ᏅᎩᏍᎪᎯ (nvgisgohi) Cheyenne: névó'e Chichewa: makumi anayi Chinese: Cantonese: 四十 (sei3 sap6) Hakka: 四十 (si-sṳ̍p) Mandarin: 四十 (zh) (sìshí) Min Dong: 四十 ((sei seik > si leik)) Teochew: 四十 (si3zab8), 卌 (siab8) Wu: 四十 (sỳ zoep) Chuukese: faik Chuvash: хӗрӗх (hĕrĕh) Coptic: ϩⲙⲉ (hme) Crimean Tatar: qırq Czech: čtyřicet (cs) Dalmatian: quaranta Danish: fyrre (da), fyrretyve (formal) Dhivehi: ސާޅީސް‎ (sāḷīs) Dutch: veertig (nl) f Dzongkha: བཞི་བཅུ (bzhi bcu) Esperanto: kvardek (eo) Estonian: nelikümmend (et) Faroese: fjøruti Fijian: vasagavulu Finnish: neljäkymmentä (fi) Franco-Provençal: please add this translation if you can French: quarante (fr) m Friulian: cuarante Galician: corenta (gl) Georgian: ორმოცი (ormoci) German: vierzig (de) f Gothic: 𐍆𐌹𐌳𐍅𐍉𐍂 𐍄𐌹𐌲𐌾𐌿𐍃 (fidwōr tigjus) Greek: σαράντα (el) (saránta) Ancient: τεσσεράκοντα (tesserákonta), μ΄ (numeral) Haitian Creole: karant Hausa: arba'in Hawaiian: kanahā Hebrew: אַרְבָּעִים‎ m or f (arba'ím) Hindi: चालीस (hi) (cālīs) Hungarian: negyven (hu) Icelandic: fjörutíu (is) Ido: quaradek (io) Indonesian: empat puluh Ingrian: neljäkymment Interlingua: quaranta Irish: daichead (ga) Italian: quaranta (it) Japanese: 四十 (ja) (よんじゅう, yonjū), 四十 (ja) (しじゅう, shijū) Javanese: please add this translation if you can Karachay-Balkar: къыркъ (qırq) Kazakh: қырық (kk) (qyryq) Khmer: សែសិប (km) (sɐe səp), (numeral) ៤០ (40) Khün: please add this translation if you can Komi-Permyak: нёльдас (nʹolʹdas) Korean: 사십(四十) (ko) (sasip), 마흔 (ko) (maheun) Kurdish: Central Kurdish: چل‎ (ku) (çil) Northern Kurdish: çil (ku) Kyrgyz: кырк (ky) (kırk) Ladin: caranta Lakota: wikčémna tópa Lao: ສີ່ສິບ (sī sip) Latin: quadraginta (la) Latvian: četrdesmit (lv) Ligurian: quaranta Lithuanian: keturiasdešimt (lt) Livonian: nēļakimdõ Lombard: please add this translation if you can Louisiana Creole French: karant Luxembourgish: véierzeg Lü: ᦉᦲᧈᦉᦲᧇ (ṡii¹ṡiib) Macedonian: четириесет (četirieset) Malay: empat puluh (ms) Malayalam: നാല്പത് (ml) (nālpatŭ) Maltese: erbgħin Manchu: ᡩᡝᡥᡳ (dehi) Mansi: налыман (nalyman) Manx: daeed Maori: whā tekau Mon: please add this translation if you can Mongolian: дөч (mn) (döč) Nauruan: animo Navajo: dízdiin Neapolitan: please add this translation if you can Norman: quarante Northern Thai: please add this translation if you can Norwegian: førti (no) Occitan: quaranta (oc) Ojibwe: niimidana Old Church Slavonic: четыре десѧте (četyre desęte) Old East Slavic: сорокъ (sorokŭ) Old English: fēowertiġ Old Frisian: fiuwertich Oromo: afurtama Pennsylvania German: varzich Persian: چهل‎ (fa) (čehel) Piedmontese: quaranta Plautdietsch: featijch Polish: czterdzieści (pl) Portuguese: quarenta (pt) Quechua: tawa chunka Romagnol: please add this translation if you can Romani: saranda Romanian: patruzeci (ro) Romansch: quaranta, curonta, curànta, curanta, quaraunta Russian: со́рок (ru) (sórok) Rusyn: со́рок (sórok) Saanich: ŋəsɬšeʔ Samoan: fasefulu Sanskrit: चत्वारिंशत् (sa) (catvāriṃśat) Santali: ᱯᱩᱱ ᱜᱮᱞ (pun gel), ᱵᱟᱨ ᱤᱥᱤ (bar isi) Sardinian: baranta, caranta Scottish Gaelic: (old system) dà fhichead, (new system) ceathrad Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: четрдесет Roman: četrdeset Shan: သီႇသိပ်း (sìi síp) Sicilian: quaranta (scn) Sikkimese: please add this translation if you can Sinhalese: හතළිහ (hataḷiha) Slovak: štyridsať (sk) Slovene: štirideset (sl) Sorbian: Lower Sorbian: styrźasća Upper Sorbian: štyrceći Southern Altai: тӧртӧн (törtön), кырык (kïrïk) Spanish: cuarenta (es) Swahili: arobaini (sw), arubaini (sw) Swedish: fyrti (sv), fyrtio (sv) Tagalog: apatnapu Tahitian: maha 'ahuru Tai Dam: please add this translation if you can Tai Nüa: please add this translation if you can Tajik: чил (tg) (čil) Tatar: кырык (tt) (qırıq) Telugu: నలభై (te) (nalabhai) Thai: สี่สิบ (th) (sìi-sìp) Tibetan: བཞི་བཅུ (bzhi bcu), ༤༠ (40) (numeral) Tigrinya: ኣርባዓ (ti) (ʾarbaʿa) Tocharian B: śtwārka Tofa: дөртэн (dörten) Tongan: fāngofulu Turkish: kırk (tr) Turkmen: kyrk (tk) Udmurt: ньыльдон (nʹylʹdon) Ukrainian: со́рок (uk) (sórok) Unami: neinxke Urdu: چالیس‎ (cālīs) Uyghur: قىرىق‎ (qiriq) Uzbek: qirq (uz) Venetian: cuaranta (vec), quaranta (vec) Vietnamese: bốn mươi (vi), bốn chục Volapük: foldeg (vo), fols (older term, obsolete) Welsh: deugain (cy) (vigesimal, traditional), pedwar deg (cy) (decimal) West Frisian: fjirtich Yiddish: פֿערציק‎ (fertsik) Yup'ik: yuinaak malruk, malruk ipiaq Zazaki: çores Zhuang: please add this translation if you can

See also

• Last: thirty (30), thirty-nine (39)
• Next: forty-one (41), fifty (50)

Noun

forty (plural forties)

1. (slang) A bottle of beer containing forty fluid ounces.

Derived terms

Terms derived from the numeral or noun forty

• Forties
• forty minutes of hell
• Forty Thieves
• forty winks
• north forty

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Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɔr.tɨ/
• Rhymes: -ɔrtɨ
• Syllabification: for‧ty

Noun

forty

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of fort