sixteen
Prononciation : [sɪkˈstin]
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Contexte : « numbers »
(noun) sixteen is the number that comes after fifteen and before seventeen. It is written as '16' in digits. You can think of it as a group of sixteen things, like sixteen apples or sixteen toys.
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There are sixteen students in my class.
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There aren't sixteen pieces of candy; there are only ten.
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How many cookies did you bake? Did you bake sixteen?
Contexte : « quantities »
(adjective) when we say something is sixteen, it means it has the amount of sixteen. If you have sixteen balloons, you have exactly that number, no more and no less.
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We bought sixteen balloons for the party.
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She didn’t want sixteen gifts; she only wanted three.
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Are there sixteen chairs set up for the event?
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