nine

CEFRA1

/naɪn/

number · numeral · noun

Türkçe translations

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In plain English

  1. 01

    number

    The number one more than eight.

  2. 02

    number

    Extra detail

    Describing a group or set with nine elements.

Examples

  • The bus service is not good between nine and ten.

  • There are only nine of these rare animals left.

At a glance

Sits at A1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
3
Citations
5

Deep Dive

number

Extra meaning

  1. The digit or figure 9.

numeral

Extra meaning

  1. A numerical value equal to 9; the number following eight and preceding ten.

noun

Extra meaning

  1. A playing card with nine pips.

More examples

In context

  • You must come back before nine o'clock.

  • They guaranteed that our Web site would have 99.99% uptime, or four nines.

  • A cat has nine lives.

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Origin

number

PIE word *h₁néwn̥ From Middle English nyn, nyne, from Old English nigon (“nine”), from Proto-West Germanic *neun, from Proto-Germanic *newun (“nine”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁néwn̥ (“nine”). Cognate with Scots neen, nine (“nine”), Saterland Frisian njúgen (“nine”), West Frisian njoggen (“nine”), Dutch negen (“nine”), German Low German negen (“nine”), German neun (“nine”), Danish ni (“nine”), Swedish nio (“nine”), Icelandic níu (“nine”), Gothic 𐌽𐌹𐌿𐌽 (niun, “nine”), Latin novem (“nine”), Ancient Greek ἐννέα (ennéa, “nine”), Sanskrit नव (náva, “nine”).