quatre-vingt-neufin world languages

LanguageWordPronunciationGenderActions
Japanese 八十九はちじゅうきゅう hachijūkyū —
English eighty-nine /ˌeɪ.ti ˈnaɪn/ —
Italian ottantanove /ot.tan.taˈnɔː.ve/ —
Spanish ochenta y nueve /oˈtʃen.ta i ˈnwe.βe/ —
German neunundachtzig /ˈnɔʏ̯n.ʊnt.ax.tsɪç/ —
Korean 팔십구Hanja 八十九 palsipgu —
Chinese 八十九Same in traditional bāshíjiǔ —

Japanese is romanized in Hepburn, Chinese in pinyin, Korean in Revised Romanization; the rest in IPA (Castilian Spanish). Notation

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We found no well-known slang or unwanted meanings for this word in these languages (regional slang is not fully covered).

Language notes

  • German (neunundachtzig)The ones come first (21 is “one-and-twenty”).
  • Korean (팔십구)For counting things and for age, the native Korean number 여든아홉 is used.