fünfzehn

German

German cardinal numbers
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    Cardinal : fünfzehn
    Ordinal : fünfzehnte

Alternative forms

Colloquial forms are

  • fuffzehn [ˈfʊftseːn] in northern and central Germany;
  • fuchzehn [ˈfʊxtseːn] in southern Germany and Austria.

These forms are frequent in pronunciation, but rare in writing, the more so as numerals above 12 are usually not written out in German texts.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfʏnftseːn/
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Numeral

fünfzehn

  1. fifteen

Coordinate terms

Further reading

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