nelisenkymmentä

Finnish

Etymology

nelisen +‎ kymmentä

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈnelisenˌkymːentæ/, [ˈne̞lis̠e̞ŋˌk̟ymːe̞n̪t̪æ]
  • Rhymes: -ymːentæ
  • Syllabification(key): ne‧li‧sen‧kym‧men‧tä
  • Hyphenation(key): ne‧lisen‧kymmen‧tä

Adverb

nelisenkymmentä

  1. about forty

Declension

The word nelisenkymmentä is not inflected. If one wants to say e.g. "in about forty" in Finnish, the easiest possibility is to use the adverb noin (“about”) as determiner to the numeral neljäkymmentä (“forty”):

  • noin neljässäkymmenessä tapauksessa sadasta = in about forty cases out of one hundred

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