/swa.sɑ̃t.dis/
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Translation
seventy
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Word origin
A French compound, soixante ('sixty') + dix ('ten'): seventy is counted as sixty-ten, a relic of the older habit of counting in twenties.
- Origin
- French
- Root
- soixante + dix
Examples
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My grandmother is seventy.
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This book costs seventy euros.
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Seventy people were at the party.
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He talked for seventy minutes without stopping.
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It is another seventy kilometres to the town.
Seventy is sixty-ten. French has no single word for it in France: you say soixante, then keep counting the teens on top of it, so 71 is soixante et onze, 75 is soixante-quinze and 79 is soixante-dix-neuf. In Belgium and Switzerland the regular form septante is used instead.
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This word is taught in chapter 2, lesson 9: soixante-dix, quand, son and 11 more words.