seventy
part of speech
number (seventy)
meaning for a pupil
1) Seventy is the number 70, which is seven tens. tree →
2) The seventies are the numbers from 70 to 79, or a person's age from 70 to 79. tree →
sense in the lessons
Maths: a number of things, money or an age; counting in tens. Everyday: speed limits, prices, ages of grandparents.
examples
- A ticket costs seventy cents. tree →
- Seventy people came to the show. tree →
- Grandpa is seventy years old. tree →
- What is seventy minus twenty? tree →
- Seventy is seven tens. tree →
- The speed limit here is seventy kilometers an hour. tree →
- Grandma is in her seventies. tree →
- "We have only seventy-five pigs," said the Princess, "and with me that's seventy-six!" tree →
note
A number word; read it as 70. Seventy-one, seventy-two ... with a hyphen. Trap: do not confuse seventy (70) with seventeen (17). Not «sevendy».
In the corpora
- sImdesyat means seventy and vIsimdesyat means eighty, both stressed at the start.
- If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech seventy and sevenfold.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «seventy» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.