Russian number words

16 in Russian Words

16 in Russian is:

шестнадцать

Russian · Standalone nominative cardinal

16 in Russian words is шестнадцать.

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16 in Russian words: шестнадцать
Russian · Standalone nominative cardinal

How 16 is built in Russian

  1. 16 → шестнадцать.

Modern Russian standalone nominative cardinals. Separate component words with spaces; no hyphens or inserted и. Thousand coefficients agree with feminine тысяча; larger scale nouns are masculine. This is not an inflected phrase for an arbitrary sentence.

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Spelling questions for 16

How is the 16 component spelled?

Use шестнадцать for this component. It is a basic written number form, not a digit-by-digit reading.

Is 16 split into separate unit and ten words?

No. The teen component is the single word шестнадцать. In coefficient 16 it keeps this form, including before a scale noun; do not replace its ending with a feminine one or two.

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