What does dezesseis in Portuguese mean?

What is the meaning of the word dezesseis in Portuguese? The article explains the full meaning, pronunciation along with bilingual examples and instructions on how to use dezesseis in Portuguese.

The word dezesseis in Portuguese means sixteen, dezesseis, dezesseis, XVI, dezesseis, dezesseis pessoas, dezesseis de, dezesseis de, dia dezesseis, dezesseis de, dezesseis de. To learn more, please see the details below.

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Meaning of the word dezesseis

sixteen

numeral (número entre 15 e 17)

(noun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc.)

dezesseis

noun (cardinal number: 16)

(numeral: Representa a quantidade exata das unidades, ordenação de elementos, fração, etc. Ex. "treze"; "primeiro"; "um terço", etc.)
Quatro vezes quatro são dezesseis.
Four times four is sixteen.

dezesseis

adjective (16 in number)

(numeral: Representa a quantidade exata das unidades, ordenação de elementos, fração, etc. Ex. "treze"; "primeiro"; "um terço", etc.)
Há dezesseis alunos em minha turma da noite.
There are sixteen students in my evening class.

XVI

adjective (century: 1500s) (século)

(adjetivo: Modifica o sustantivo. Pode ser possessivo, numeral, demonstrativo ("casa grande", "mulher alta").)
The history exam covered most of the sixteenth century.

dezesseis

adjective (16 years of age)

(numeral: Representa a quantidade exata das unidades, ordenação de elementos, fração, etc. Ex. "treze"; "primeiro"; "um terço", etc.)
Nicole tem dezesseis anos.
Nicole is sixteen.

dezesseis pessoas

pronoun (people, things: 16 of them)

Dezesseis pessoas foram na viagem escolar para Paris.
Sixteen went on the school trip to Paris.

dezesseis de

noun (US, written (sixteenth day of specified month)

O Dia dos Direitos Civis cai em dezesseis de janeiro esse ano.
Civil Rights Day falls on January 16 this year.

dezesseis de

noun (mainly UK, written (sixteenth day of specified month) (dia do mês)

Vamos nos casar no dia dezesseis de julho.
We're getting married on 16 July.

dia dezesseis

noun (sixteenth day of the month)

Kimberly's birthday is on the sixteenth.

dezesseis de

noun (UK (sixteenth day of specified month)

My parents' wedding anniversary is on the sixteenth of July.

dezesseis de

noun (16th monarch with specified name)

Charles the Sixteenth Gustav is the King of Sweden.

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