восемьдесят

Russian

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    Cardinal: во́семьдесят (vósemʹdesjat)
    Ordinal: восьмидеся́тый (vosʹmidesjátyj)
    Ordinal abbreviation: 80-ый (80-yj)

Etymology

Compounded from во́семь (vósemʹ) +‎ де́сять (désjatʹ), literally eight tens. Де́сят was the Old East Slavic genitive plural, which is required by numbers пять (pjatʹ, 5) and up.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈvosʲɪmdʲɪsʲɪt] (phonetic respelling: во́семдесят)
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  • (colloquial or fast speech) IPA(key): [ˈvosʲɪmʲɪst] (phonetic respelling: во́семест)
  • (colloquial or fast speech) IPA(key): [ˈvosʲɪmʲɪsʲtʲ] (phonetic respelling: во́семесть)

Numeral

во́семьдесят • (vósemʹdesjat)

  1. eighty (80)
    • 1889, Лев Толстой [Leo Tolstoy], chapter I, in Дьявол; English translation from Aylmer and Louise Maude, transl., The Devil, 1911:
      Вози́ли лес, пло́тники уже́ рабо́тали, и наво́з вози́ли на восьми́десяти подво́дах, но всё до сих по́р висе́ло на ни́точке.
      Vozíli les, plótniki užé rabótali, i navóz vozíli na vosʹmídesjati podvódax, no vsjo do six pór visélo na nítočke.
      The timber was being carted, the carpenters were already at work, and manure for the estate was being brought on eighty carts, but everything still hung by a thread.

Usage notes

восемьдесят (vosemʹdesjat) in the nominative case and accusative case governs the genitive plural of the noun. In other cases, it governs the corresponding plural case of the noun.

  • во́семьдесят ма́льчиковvósemʹdesjat málʹčikoveighty boys
  • с восемью́десятью ма́льчикамиs vosemʹjúdesjatʹju málʹčikamiwith eighty boys
  • ма́льчиков во́семьдесятmálʹčikov vósemʹdesjatapproximately eighty boys

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