How do you use the word "five" in a sentence?

Q: How do you use the word "five" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "five": It will take five to ten years for the technology to be ready. It's just five in the morning, but nevertheless it is light out.

Five Meaning

/ˈfaɪ̯v/

Definition, CEFR level A1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

numA numerical value equal to 5; the number following four and preceding six.

numDescribing a group or set with five elements.

Sentence Examples

It will take five to ten years for the technology to be ready.

It's just five in the morning, but nevertheless it is light out.

There are only five cookies left.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

cardinal quintet

Antonyms:

ordinal

CEFR Practice Quiz

She carefully counted her fingers and found she had exactly ____ on one hand.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

There are ____ players on each team in a standard professional basketball game played on the court.

Word Origin & History

PIE word *pénkʷe Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *pénkʷe Proto-Germanic *fimf Proto-West Germanic *fimf Old English fīf Middle English fyf English five From Middle English fyf, fyve, from Old English fīf (“five”), from Proto-West Germanic *fimf (“five”), from Proto-Germanic *fimf (“five”), from Proto-Indo-European *pénkʷe. See also West Frisian fiif, Dutch vijf, German fünf, Norwegian and Swedish fem, Icelandic fimm; also Welsh pump, Latin quinque, Tocharian A päñ, Tocharian B piś, Lithuanian penki, Russian пять (pjatʹ), Albanian pesë, pêsë, Ancient Greek πέντε (pénte), Armenian հինգ (hing), Persian پنج (panj), Sanskrit पञ्च (páñca). Doublet of cinque, fin (“five currency units”), finnuf, pimp (“five”), ponzu, punch (“beverage”), and sengi (“currency”); related to Pompeii. The nasal *m in Proto-Germanic *fimf was lost through a sound change known as the Ingvaeonic nasal spirant law.

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"The r-stems had apparently been reduced to the five nuclear kinship terms that still survive in Modern English." — 2006, Donald Ringe, From Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Germanic (A Linguistic History of English; 1), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 197:

"The Texas Rangers investigation is one of at least five announced investigations targeting EPIC or EPIC City. Those include investigations led by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, the Texas Workforce Commission, the Texas State Board of Securities and the Texas Funeral Service Commission." — 2025 March 31, Adrian Ashford, “Gov. Abbott directs Texas Rangers to investigate EPIC for ‘potential criminal activities’”, in The Dallas Morning News:

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