Vocabulary
zehn
/tseːn/· number
ten
Counting, ages, house numbers, and inside 13 to 19: dreizehn, vierzehn, fünfzehn. The z is [ts], like the end of English „cats“.
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Forms
- in Ziffern
- 10
- Ordinalzahl
- der zehnte
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zehn
ten
Acht, neun, zehn!
Eight, nine, ten!
Common combinations
- zehn Minutenten minutes
- von eins bis zehnfrom one to ten
Common learner mistakes
- zehn with an English z soundzehn [tseːn]German z always sounds [ts], like the end of English „cats“: zehn, zwei, zwölf.
Real examples
- Fünf und fünf ist zehn.Five and five is ten.
- Das ist Nummer zehn.That's number ten.
- Paul ist zehn Jahre alt.Paul is ten years old.