devet

See also: dévêt and devět

Mauritian Creole

Etymology

From French devoir être.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [devet]

Adverb

devet

  1. maybe; perhaps
    Synonyms: bizin, kapav

Serbo-Croatian
Serbo-Croatian numbers (edit)
90
 ←  8 9 10  → 
    Cardinal: devet
    Ordinal: deveti
    Multiplier: devetostruk
    Collective: devetoro
    Fractional: devetina

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *devętь, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁néwn̥.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /dêʋet/
  • Audio (Serbia)(file)
  • Hyphenation: de‧vet

Numeral

dȅvet (Cyrillic spelling де̏вет)

  1. nine (9)

Usage notes
  • Nouns following the numbers 5-20 are in genitive plural.

Derived terms

Slovene
Slovene numbers
< 8 9 10 >

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *devętь, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁néwn̥.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /dɛʋéːt/

Numeral

devẹ̑t

  1. nine

Inflection
Declension of devet (numeral)
nom. plur. [Term?]
gen. plur. [Term?]
plural
nominative devet
accusative devet
genitive devetih
dative devetim
locative devetih
instrumental devetimi

Further reading
  • “devet”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
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