Dictionary Definition
forty adj : being ten more than thirty [syn:
40, xl, twoscore] n : the cardinal
number that is the product of ten and four [syn: 40, XL]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɔː(r)ti
Cardinal number
forty- The cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine and before forty-one, represented in Roman numerals as XL and in Arabic numerals as 40. Ordinal: fortieth.
- A 40 ounce bottle of beer.
- Arabic numerals: 40
- Roman
numerals: XL
- Last: thirty (30), thirty-nine (39)
- Next: forty-one (41), fifty (50)
Translations
the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
- Arabic:
- Aramaic:
- Basque: berrogei
- Bosnian: četrdeset
- Breton: daou-ugent
- Bulgarian: четиридесет (četirideset)
- Chinese: 四十
(sìshí)
- Teochew: si3zab8, siab8
- Crimean Tatar: qırq
- Croatian: četrdeset
- Czech: čtyřicet
- Danish: fyrre
- Dutch: veertig
- Esperanto: kvardek
- Estonian: nelikümmend
- Finnish: neljäkymmentä
- French: quarante
- German: vierzig
- Greek, Ancient: τεσσαράκοντα (tessarákonta)
- Greek, Modern: σαράντα (saránda)
- Hebrew: אַרְבָּעִים (arba'im) m|f
- Hindi: (chalis)
- Hungarian: negyven
- Interlingua: quaranta
- Irish: daichead
- Italian: quaranta
- Japanese: 四十 (shi-jū, yon-jū)
- Korean: 마흔 (maheun), 40 (sasip)
- Kurdish: çil,
- Latin: quadraginta
- Maltese: erbgħin
- Manx: daeed
- Norwegian: førti
- Novial: quaranti
- Polish: czterdzieści
- Portuguese: quarenta
- Romanian: patruzeci
- Russian: сорок
- Sanskrit:
- Serbian: четрдесет (četrdeset)
- Sinhala: හතළිහ (hathaliha)
- Slovak: štyridsať
- Spanish: cuarenta
- Swahili: arobaini
- Swedish: fyrti, fyrtio
- Tatar: кырык, qırıq
- Turkish: kırk
- Ukrainian: сорок
- Welsh: deugain vigesimal, traditional, pedwar deg decimal
- West Frisian: fjirtich
Extensive Definition
Despite being related to the word "four" (4), 40
is spelled as "forty", not "fourty". This is because etymologically
(and still in accents without the
horse-hoarse merger), the words have different vowels, "forty"
containing a contraction in the same way that "fifty" contains a
contraction of "five". The letters of the word "forty" are in
alphabetical
order; this is the only number that has this linguistic
property in English.
forty in Dutch: 40 (getal)
forty in Japanese: 40
forty in Neapolitan: Quaranta
forty in Norwegian: 40 (tall)
forty in Norwegian Nynorsk: Talet 40
forty in Polish: 40 (liczba)
forty in Portuguese: Quarenta
forty in Russian: 40 (число)
forty in Simple English: Forty
forty in Slovenian: 40 (število)
forty in Finnish: 40 (luku)
forty in Swedish: 40 (tal)
forty in Kabyle: 40
forty in Thai: 40
forty in Vietnamese: 40 (số)
forty in Wu Chinese: 40
forty in Yiddish: 40 (נומער)
forty in Contenese: 40
forty in Chinese: 40