Englisch
Etymology
From Middle English fourti , feortiȝ , from Old English fēowertiġ , ultimately from Proto-Germanic *fedwōr tigiwiz ( “ forty ” ) .
Pronunciation
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Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)ti
Hyphenation: for‧ty
Numeral
forty
The cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine and before forty-one .
1825 , unknown, Harrison's Amusing Picture and Poetry Book , page 35 :'Tis forty years this very day, Since you and I, old girl, were married.
Usage notes
In modern usage, the spelling fourty is nonstandard.
Synonyms
Derived terms
Translations
the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
Afrikaans: veertig (af)
Albanian: dyzet (sq)
Arabic: أَرْبَعُونَ ( ʔarbaʕūna )
Egyptian Arabic: أربعين ( ʔarbaʕīn )
Moroccan Arabic: ربعين ( rabʕīn ) , أربعين ( ʔarbʕīn )
Aramaic:
Hebrew: ארבעין c ( arb‘īn )
Syriac: ܐܪܒܥܝܢ c ( arb‘īn )
Armenian: քառասուն (hy) ( kʻaṙasun )
Aromanian: patrudzãts , patrudzãtsi
Assamese: চল্লিছ ( sollis )
Asturian: cuarenta (ast)
Avar: кӏикъого ( kʼiqxʼogo )
Azerbaijani: qırx (az)
Bashkir: ҡырҡ ( qırq )
Basque: berrogei (eu)
Belarusian: со́рак ( sórak )
Bengali: চল্লিশ (bn) ( colliś )
Biatah Bidayuh: pat puru
Bikol Central: apat na pulo
Breton: daou-ugent (br)
Bulgarian: четири́десет ( četirídeset ) , четири́йсет ( četiríjset )
Burmese: လေးဆယ် ( le:hcai )
Catalan: quaranta (ca)
Chakma: please add this translation if you can
Chamicuro: ma'pojtamala chunka
Chamorro: kuårenta
Chechen: шовзткъа ( šovztqʼa )
Cherokee: ᏅᎩᏍᎪᎯ ( nvgisgohi )
Cheyenne: névó'e
Chichewa: makumi anayi
Chinese:
Cantonese: 四十 ( sei3 sap6 )
Hakka: 四十 ( si-sṳ̍p )
Mandarin: 四十 (zh) ( sìshí )
Min Dong: 四十 ( (sei seik > si leik) )
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Wu: 四十
Chuukese: faik
Chuvash: хӗрӗх ( hĕrĕh )
Coptic: ϩⲙⲉ ( hme )
Crimean Tatar: qırq
Czech: čtyřicet (cs)
Dalmatian: quaranta
Danish: fyrre (da) , fyrretyve ( formal )
Dhivehi: ސާޅީސް ( sāḷīs )
Dutch: veertig (nl) f
Dzongkha: བཞི་བཅུ ( bzhi bcu )
Esperanto: kvardek (eo)
Estonian: nelikümmend (et)
Faroese: fjøruti
Fijian: vasagavulu
Finnish: neljäkymmentä (fi)
Franco-Provençal: please add this translation if you can
French: quarante (fr) m
Friulian: cuarante
Galician: corenta (gl)
Georgian: ორმოცი ( ormoci )
German: vierzig (de) f
Gothic: 𐍆𐌹𐌳𐍅𐍉𐍂 𐍄𐌹𐌲𐌾𐌿𐍃 ( fidwōr tigjus )
Greek: σαράντα (el) ( saránta )
Ancient: τεσσεράκοντα ( tesserákonta ) , μ΄ ( numeral )
Haitian Creole: karant
Hausa: arba'in
Hawaiian: kanahā
Hebrew: אַרְבָּעִים m or f ( arba'ím )
Hindi: चालीस (hi) ( cālīs )
Hungarian: negyven (hu)
Icelandic: fjörutíu (is)
Ido: quaradek (io)
Indonesian: empat puluh
Ingrian: neljäkymment
Interlingua: quaranta
Irish: daichead (ga)
Italian: quaranta (it)
Japanese: 四十 (ja) ( よんじゅう, yonjū ) , 四十 (ja) ( しじゅう, shijū )
Javanese: please add this translation if you can
Karachay-Balkar: къыркъ ( qırq )
Kazakh: қырық (kk) ( qyryq )
Khmer: សែសិប (km) ( sɐe səp ) , ( numeral ) ៤០ ( 40 )
Khün: please add this translation if you can
Komi-Permyak: нёльдас ( ńoľdas )
Korean: 사십(四十) (ko) ( sasip ) , 마흔 (ko) ( maheun )
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: چل (ckb) ( çil )
Northern Kurdish: çil (ku)
Kyrgyz: кырк (ky) ( kırk )
Ladin: caranta
Lakota: wikčémna tópa
Lao: ສີ່ສິບ ( sī sip )
Latin: quadraginta (la)
Latvian: četrdesmit (lv)
Ligurian: quaranta
Lithuanian: keturiasdešimt (lt)
Livonian: nēļakimdõ
Lombard: quaranta
Louisiana Creole French: karant
Luxembourgish: véierzeg
Lü: ᦉᦲᧈᦉᦲᧇ ( ṡii¹ṡiib )
Macedonian: четириесет ( četirieset )
Malay: empat puluh (ms)
Malayalam: നാല്പത് (ml) ( nālpatŭ )
Maltese: erbgħin
Manchu: ᡩᡝᡥᡳ ( dehi )
Mansi: Lua error in Module:parameters at line 331 : Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "mns" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E .
Manx: daeed
Maori: whā tekau
Mon: please add this translation if you can
Mongolian: дөч (mn) ( döč )
Nauruan: animo
Navajo: dízdiin
Neapolitan: please add this translation if you can
Norman: quarante
Northern Thai: please add this translation if you can
Norwegian: førti (no)
Occitan: quaranta (oc)
Ojibwe: niimidana
Old Church Slavonic: четыре десѧте ( četyre desęte )
Old East Slavic: сорокъ ( sorokŭ )
Old English: fēowertiġ
Old Frisian: fiuwertich
Oromo: afurtama
Pennsylvania German: varzich
Persian: چهل (fa) ( čehel )
Piedmontese: quaranta
Plautdietsch: featijch
Polish: czterdzieści (pl)
Portuguese: quarenta (pt)
Quechua: tawa chunka
Romagnol: cvaranta
Romani: saranda
Romanian: patruzeci (ro)
Romansch: quaranta , curonta , curànta , curanta , quaraunta
Russian: со́рок (ru) ( sórok )
Rusyn: со́рок ( sórok )
Saanich: ŋəsɬšeʔ
Samoan: fasefulu
Sanskrit: चत्वारिंशत् (sa) ( catvāriṃśat )
Santali: ᱯᱩᱱ ᱜᱮᱞ ( pun gel ) , ᱵᱟᱨ ᱤᱥᱤ ( bar isi )
Sardinian: baranta , caranta
Scottish Gaelic: ( old system ) dà fhichead , ( new system ) ceathrad
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: четрдесет
Roman: četrdeset
Shan: သီႇသိပ်း ( sìi síp )
Sicilian: quaranta (scn)
Sikkimese: please add this translation if you can
Sinhalese: හතළිහ ( hataḷiha )
Slovak: štyridsať (sk)
Slovene: štirideset (sl)
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: styrźasća
Upper Sorbian: štyrceći
Southern Altai: тӧртӧн ( törtön ) , кырык ( kïrïk )
Spanish: cuarenta (es)
Swahili: arobaini (sw) , arubaini (sw)
Swedish: fyrti (sv) , fyrtio (sv)
Tagalog: apatnapu
Tahitian: maha 'ahuru
Tai Dam: please add this translation if you can
Tai Nüa: please add this translation if you can
Tajik: чил (tg) ( čil )
Tatar: кырык (tt) ( qırıq )
Telugu: నలభై (te) ( nalabhai )
Thai: สี่สิบ (th) ( sìi-sìp )
Tibetan: བཞི་བཅུ ( bzhi bcu ) , ༤༠ ( 40 ) ( numeral )
Tigrinya: ኣርባዓ (ti) ( ʾarbaʿa )
Tocharian B: śtwārka
Tofa: дөртэн ( dörten )
Tongan: fāngofulu
Turkish: kırk (tr)
Turkmen: kyrk (tk)
Udmurt: ньыльдон ( ńyľdon )
Ukrainian: со́рок (uk) ( sórok )
Unami: neinxke
Urdu: چالیس ( cālīs )
Uyghur: قىرىق ( qiriq )
Uzbek: qirq (uz)
Venetian: cuaranta (vec) , quaranta (vec)
Vietnamese: bốn mươi (vi) , bốn chục
Volapük: foldeg (vo) , fols ( older term, obsolete )
Welsh: deugain (cy) ( vigesimal, traditional ) , pedwar deg (cy) ( decimal )
West Frisian: fjirtich
Yiddish: פֿערציק ( fertsik )
Yup'ik: yuinaak malruk , malruk ipiaq
Zazaki: çores
Zhuang: please add this translation if you can
See also
Nomen
forty (plural forties )
( slang ) A bottle of beer containing forty fluid ounces .
Derived terms
Terms derived from the numeral or noun forty
Polish
Pronunciation
IPA (key ) : /ˈfɔr.tɨ/
Rhymes: -ɔrtɨ
Syllabification: for‧ty
Nomen
forty
nominative / accusative / vocative plural of fort