seventeen

English

Etymology

From Middle English seventene, from Old English seofontīene, from Proto-Germanic *sebuntehun. Compare Dutch zeventien, West Frisian santjin, German siebzehn, Danish sytten.

Alternative forms

• Arabic numerals: 17. Roman numerals: XVII

Pronunciation

• (next word stressed near the first syllable)

  (UK, US) IPA: /ˈsɛv.ən.tiːn/

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• (next word stressed after the first syllable)

  (UK, US) IPA: /ˌsɛv.ənˈtiːn/

• Rhymes: -iːn

Cardinal numeral

seventeen

1. The cardinal number occurring after sixteen and before eighteen, represented in Roman numerals as XVII and in Arabic numerals as 17.

Derived terms

• Ordinal: seventeenth

Translations

cardinal number

• American Sign Language:
• Arabic: سبعة عشر (ar) (sábʕaʈ ʕášar)

  Egyptian Arabic: سبعتاشر (sabaʕtaashar)

• Aramaic:

  Hebrew: שבעסר (shba‘sar) m, שבעסרא (shba‘esrē) f

  Syriac: ܫܒܥܣܪ (shba‘sar) m, ܫܒܥܣܪܐ (shba‘esrē) f

• Armenian: տասնյոթ (hy) (tasnyot')
• Aymara: tunka paqallquni (ay)
• Azeri: on yeddi (az)
• Basque: hamazazpi (eu)
• Bengali: সতেরো (bn) (shôtero)
• Breton: seitek (br)
• Burmese: ဆယ့်ခုနစ် (my) (hsè.hkunnit)
• Catalan: disset (ca)
• Cebuano: napulo`g pito, disesyete
• Chechen: вуьрхIитта (vürhitta)
• Chichewa: khumi n'zisanu n'ziwiri
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 十七 (cmn) (shíqī)

• Czech: sedmnáct (cs)
• Dalmatian: dichisapto
• Danish: sytten (da)
• Dena'ina: qents'eghuy'i beq'di
• Dutch: zeventien (nl) f
• Esperanto: dek sep (eo)
• Estonian: seitseteist (et)
• Finnish: seitsemäntoista (fi)
• French: dix-sept (fr) m
• Galician: dezasete (gl)
• German: siebzehn (de)
• Greek: δεκαεπτά (el) (dekaeptá)
• Haitian Creole: disèt
• Hebrew: שְׁבַע־עֶשְׂרֵה (he) (shva esre) f (used in counting), שִׁבְעָה־עָשָׂר (he) (shiv'a asar) m
• Hindi: सत्रह (hi) (satrah)
• Hopi: pakwt niikyang tsange’ siikya’ta
• Hungarian: tizenhét (hu)
• Icelandic: sautján (is)
• Indonesian: tujuh belas (id)
• Interlingua: dece-septe (ia)
• Irish: seacht déag (ga)
• Italian: diciassette (it)
• Japanese: 十七 (ja) (じゅうなな, juunana/じゅうしち, juushichi)
• Jèrriais: dgiêx-sept
• Kalaallisut: arvirsaniq-marluk
• Khmer: ដប់ប្រាំពីរ (km) (dop pram pī)
• Korean: 열일곱 (ko) (yeolilgop), 십칠 (ko) (sipchil) (十七 (ko))

• Kurdish:

  Sorani: حه‌ڤده‌ (ku)

• Latin: septendecim (la)
• Latvian: septiņpadsmit (lv)
• Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
• Livonian: seistuoistõn
• Low German: söventeihn (nds)
• Luxembourgish: please add this translation if you can
• Macedonian: седумнаесет (mk) (sedumnáeset)
• Malay: tujuh belas (ms), pitu belas (ms), sepuluh tujuh (ms), sepuluh pitu (ms), satu puluh tujuh (ms), satu puluh pitu (ms)
• Maltese: sbatax (mt)
• Mansi: сатхуйплов (sātxujplow)
• Mapudungun: marirekle
• Mongolian: арван долоо‎ (mn) (arvan doloo‎)
• Navajo: tsostsʼidtsʼáadah
• Norwegian: sytten (no)
• Novial: dek-set
• Ojibwe: ashi-niizhwaaswi
• Old Armenian: եօթնեւտասն (eōtʿnewtasn)
• Persian: هفده (fa) (hefda')
• Polish: siedemnaście (pl)
• Portuguese: dezassete (pt), dezessete (pt)
• Punjabi: ਸਤਾਰ੍ਹਾਂ (pa) (satārhāṅ)
• Romanian: șaptesprezece (ro), șapteșpe (ro) (informal)
• Russian: семнадцать (ru) (semnádtsat’)
• Sanskrit: सप्तदश (sa) (saptádaśa)
• Scottish Gaelic: seachd (gd) deug (gd)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: седамнаест (sh)

  Roman: sedamnaest (sh)

• Sinhalese: දහහත (si) (dhahahatha)
• Slovene: sedemnajst (sl)
• Spanish: diecisiete (es)
• Swedish: sjutton (sv)
• Tagalog: labimpito (tl)
• Tamil: please add this translation if you can
• Telugu: పదిహేడు (te)
• Thai: สิบเจ็ด (th)
• Turkish: on yedi (tr)
• Urdu: سترہ (ur) (satrah)
• Vietnamese: mười bảy (vi)
• Volapük: degvel (vo)
• Welsh: dau ar bymtheg m (vigesimal, traditional), dwy ar bymtheg f (vigesimal), un deg saith (decimal)
• West Frisian: santjin (fy)
• Yiddish: זיבעצן (yi) (zibetsn)

Derived terms

• seventeenth

See also

• Last: sixteen. Next: eighteen