thirty-nine

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A number equal to thirty plus nine

numeral
/ˈθɜrti naɪn/

: treinta y nueve

There are thirty-nine chapters in the book you recommended.
thirty-nine percent
thirty-nine hundred
thirty-nine years

Examples

Our team won thirty-nine games last season, setting a new record.
Thirty-nine days have passed since we've lost our thirty-nine loved ones, friends, and teachers.

Fiction book (2000)
What was the observed response of the thirty-nine pupils in the class?

Academic text (1995)
At the beginning of 1995, only thirty-nine hundred workers were employed in the assembly sector.

Academic text (1998)
Of the same group of participants, only thirty-nine percent reported that they feel math is easy for them.

Academic text (2008)
And Nell is three, and your father is fifty, and my sister is thirty-nine.

Fiction book (1996)
In 1938, when Romy is thirty-nine, she has her first solo show.

Fiction book (1997)
Where has African Arts been? What have been its trajectories and trends over these thirty-nine years?

Academic text (2007)
The program consists of thirty-nine credits, not including any undergraduate prerequisites.

Academic text (2006)
For instance, they acquired suffrage in 1945, and thirty-nine women became Diet members in 1946.

Academic text (2014)

Surface Forms

thirty-nine cardinal word

39 cardinal digit

thirty nine cardinal word

39th ordinal digit

thirty-ninth ordinal word

Morphology

thirty-nine = thirty + nine (transparent) = thirty + nine

A direct hyphenated compound of two cardinal numbers; the meaning is the sum 30 + 9 and is obvious to learners.

Etymology

The word thirty-nine is simply the numbers thirty and nine joined together: thirty means 'three groups of ten' and nine means 'one less than ten'. So thirty-nine literally means 'thirty plus nine', or 'nine more than thirty'.