sixteen

English

**English numbers ^(edit)**
← 15	16	17 →
Cardinal: sixteen Ordinal: sixteenth Adverbial: sixteen times Multiplier: sixteenfold

Alternative forms

Symbolic: 16
Roman: XVI

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/
Audio (US) (file)
(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.
- 1912 January, Zane Grey, chapter 8, in Riders of the Purple Sage […], New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, OCLC 6868219:
  Venters began to count them—one—two—three—four—on up to sixteen.

Related terms

Ordinal: sixteenth

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) (tasnvecʿ)
Asturian: dieciséis (ast)
Aymara: tunka suxtani
Azerbaijani: on altı (az)
Bashkir: ун алты (un altı)
Basque: hamasei (eu)
Belarusian: шасна́ццаць (šasnáccacʹ)
Bengali: সোলো (solo) (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)
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 (kk) (on alty)
Khmer: ដប់ប្រាំមួយ (dop pram muoy) (numeral: ១៦)
Komi-Permyak: дасквать (daskvatʹ)
Korean: 열여섯 (ko) (yeoryeoseot), 십육(十六) (ko) (simnyuk), 십륙 (simnyuk) (North Korea)
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: شانزە‎ (ku) (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: please add this translation if you can
Louisiana Creole French: sèz
Low German: sössteihn (nds), sossteihn
German Low German: sössteihn (nds)
Luxembourgish: siechzéng (lb)
Lü: ᦉᦲᧇᦷᦠᧅ (ṡiibḣok) (numeral: ᧑᧖)
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)
Mansi: хотхуйплов (hothujplov)
Maori: tekau mā ono (mi)
Mapudungun: marikayu
Middle English: sixtene
Mongolian: арван зургаа (mn) (arvan zurgaa)
Navajo: hastą́ʼáadah
Norman: seize
Northern Sami: guhttanuppelohkái
Norwegian: seksten (no)
Occitan: setze (oc)
Ojibwe: ashi-ingodwaaswi
Old Church Slavonic: шесть на десѧте (šestĭ na desęte) (numeral: ѕ҃і)
Oriya: ଶୋଳ (śoḷô) (numeral: ୧୬ (16))
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: please add this translation if you can
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)
Rusyn: шістна́дцять (šistnádcjatʹ)
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
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)
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

Anagrams

exteins, extines, sextine

Middle English

Numeral

sixteen

Alternative form of sixtene

sixteen

English

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