Translation
three
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Examples
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Three men came.
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He said three words.
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He was the father of three sons.
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He came back within three days.
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There are three ships in the harbour.
declines, and it is the last numeral that does. Masculine and feminine share in the nominative and accusative (with an older accusative tris), the neuter is , the genitive is for all genders and the dative and ablative are . From up to every cardinal number is indeclinable, so , and are the whole of the work.
The ordinal is , "third", and the distributive terni, "three each". The combining form tri- is everywhere: triduum (a space of three days), triumvir, tribunus, trini. Descendants: Italian tre, Spanish , French trois, and English "trio", "triple" and "trinity" through the same stem.
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tres: worksheet, infographic and listicle
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This word is taught in chapter 1, lesson 7: tres, tu, pro and 10 more words.