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Write the number as a word in Swedish.

Question Answer
11 elva
12 tolv
13 tretton
14 fjorton
15 femton
16 sexton
17 sjutton
18 arton
19 nitton
20 tjugo

How the numbers work

Elva (11) and tolv (12) look a bit like eleven and twelve.

13 to 19 end in -ton, like English -teen: sexton is 6 + 10 = 16, and femton is 15. Some change a little at the start: tre becomes tretton, sju becomes sjutton and nio becomes nitton.

Two change more: fjorton (14) comes from fyra and arton (18) from åtta. 20 is tjugo.

Sources

We checked the answers against these references.

  1. Cambridge Dictionary dictionary.cambridge.org
  2. Cambridge: eleven dictionary.cambridge.org
  3. Cambridge: twelve dictionary.cambridge.org
  4. Cambridge: thirteen dictionary.cambridge.org
  5. Cambridge: fourteen dictionary.cambridge.org
  6. Cambridge: fifteen dictionary.cambridge.org
  7. Cambridge: sixteen dictionary.cambridge.org
  8. Cambridge: seventeen dictionary.cambridge.org
  9. Cambridge: eighteen dictionary.cambridge.org
  10. Cambridge: nineteen dictionary.cambridge.org
  11. Cambridge: twenty dictionary.cambridge.org

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