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How do you say "eighty-nine" in French?
quatre-vingt-neuf
In French, "eighty-nine" is quatre-vingt-neuf.
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Pronunciation
Pronounced katr-van-nuf, where nuf sounds like neuf.
Grammar notes
Quatre-vingt-neuf is the last of the eighties range.
Example sentence
Le gâteau a quatre-vingt-neuf bougies.
The cake has eighty-nine candles.
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How to remember quatre-vingt-neuf
Neuf sounds new - eighty-nine is the peak before ninety.
Related words
- eighty-five quatre-vingt-cinq
- fifty-nine cinquante-neuf
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- forty-one quarante et un
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- narrow étroit
- red rouge
- sixty-five soixante-cinq
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Questions about quatre-vingt-neuf
How do you say "eighty-nine" in French?
In French, "eighty-nine" is quatre-vingt-neuf. It is a noun.
How is quatre-vingt-neuf written in French?
quatre-vingt-neuf is written using the standard French script.
How is quatre-vingt-neuf used in a sentence?
Use quatre-vingt-neuf as you would use the equivalent noun in English. For example: Le gâteau a quatre-vingt-neuf bougies. (The cake has eighty-nine candles.).
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"Eighty-nine" in other languages
- Japanese 八十九 (hachijūkyū)
- Korean 팔십구 (pal sip gu)
- Chinese 八十九 (bā shí jiǔ)
- Spanish ochenta y nueve
- Spanish (Latin America) ochenta y nueve
- German neunundachtzig
- Italian ottantanove
- Russian восемьдесят девять (vosem'desyat' devyat')
- Greek ογδοντα εννέα (ogdónta ennéa)
- Arabic تسعة وتمانين (tis'a witamaneen)
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