eighty
number (eighty, 80)
Everyday
Eighty is the number 80, eight tens. tree →
In the lessons
maths: a number of things counted; 80 = 8 × 10 = 4 × 20; percent (80 percent is 80 out of 100); everyday life: eighty pages, eighty miles, Grandma turned eighty
Examples
- The book has eighty pages. tree →
- Eighty people came. tree →
- He drove eighty miles. tree →
- Eighty is ten times eight. tree →
- My great-grandmother is eighty years old. tree →
- Eighty minus twenty is sixty. tree →
- She got eighty percent on the test. tree →
- For the last eighty years I have dug up the ground here without discovering anything. tree →
Note
A number written as a word: 80. Trap: do not mix up eighty (80) and eighteen (18); the stress is on the start: EIGH-ty. No hyphen alone; «eighty-one» has a hyphen.
In Jewish tradition
maths: a number of things counted; 80 = 8 × 10 = 4 × 20; percent (80 percent is 80 out of 100); everyday life: eighty pages, eighty miles, Grandma turned eighty
Examples
- And Methuselah lived a hundred eighty and seven years, and begot Lamech. (Torah GEN.5.25, JPS 1917) tree →
- And Lamech lived a hundred eighty and two years, and begot a son. (Torah GEN.5.28, JPS 1917) tree →
- And Methuselah lived after he begot Lamech seven hundred eighty and two years, and begot sons and daughters. (Torah GEN.5.26, JPS 1917) tree →
Note
A number written as a word: 80. Trap: do not mix up eighty (80) and eighteen (18); the stress is on the start: EIGH-ty. No hyphen alone; «eighty-one» has a hyphen.
On Mova
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