seventeen

[US]/sev(ə)n'tiːn/
[UK]/ˌsɛvn'tin/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

pron. syttende
n. tallet syttende
Word Forms

Phrases & Collocations

age of seventeen

attentår år

seventeen years old

sytten år gammel

seventeen people

sytten personer

Example Sentences

I have seventeen cousins.

Jeg har sytten kusiner.

if she's seventeen, I'm a Dutchman.

hvis hun er sytten, er jeg en hollander.

a girl of sixteen or seventeen summers.

en pige på seksten eller sytten somre.

At the tender age of seventeen I left home.

I en tidlig alder på sytten forlod jeg hjemmet.

a list of names, seventeen in all.

en liste med navne, sytten i alt.

What's seventeen plus nine?

Hvad er sytten plus ni?

men who ranged in age from seventeen to eighty-four.

mænd, der spændte i alderen fra sytten til firsfire år.

I got it on seventeen days approval,so if you don’t like it we can change it.

Jeg fik det på sytten dages godkendelse, så hvis du ikke kan lide det, kan vi ændre det.

Debbie is the black sheep of the family, having left home at seventeen to live with her boyfriend.

Debbie er familiens sorte får, da hun forlod hjemmet i en alder af sytten for at bo sammen med sin kæreste.

an album featuring seventeen top movie themes and six number ones.

et album med sytten af de bedste filmtemaer og seks nummer ét-hits.

In an unprecedented action, the army, on its own initiative, arrested seventeen civilians.

I en hidtil uset handling arresterede hæren på eget initiativ sytten civile.

He’s only seventeen, but he has an old head on young shoulders and remains calm under pressure.

Han er kun sytten, men han har et koldt hoved på unge skuldre og forbliver rolig under pres.

Slanger was killed the following day by an artillery shell. She was one of seventeen Army nurses killed in combat.

Slanger blev dræbt den følgende dag af en artillerigranat. Hun var en af sytten sygeplejersker i hæren, der blev dræbt i kamp.

Real-world Examples

Seventeen was his unlucky number. He was terrified of seventeen.

Syttende var hans uheldige nummer. Han var bange for syttende.

Source: Yale University Open Course: European Civilization (Audio Version)

She was only about seventeen, with the most beautiful little face I had ever seen.

Hun var kun omkring sytten år, med det sødeste lille ansigt, jeg nogensinde havde set.

Source: "Wuthering Heights" simplified version (Level 5)

Seventeen times per hour, to be exact.

Syttende gange i timen, for at være præcis.

Source: Past English Level 4 Reading Exam Papers

'Sixteen or seventeen, I think, ' said another voice.

'Seks eller sytten, tror jeg,' sagde en anden stemme.

Source: Little Women (abridged version)

Seventeen people are now known to have died.

Syttende personer er nu kendt for at være døde.

Source: BBC Listening Collection November 2016

She really meant, " Are you staying seventeen days? "

Hun mente virkelig: " Opholder du dig i syttende dage?"

Source: Modern University English Intensive Reading (2nd Edition) Volume 4

He said you came here seventeen years ago.

Han sagde, at du kom her for syttende år siden.

Source: Flowers for Algernon

I sold your father that house seventeen years ago.

Jeg solgte din far det hus for syttende år siden.

Source: Travel Across America

She was only seventeen years old.

Hun var kun sytten år gammel.

Source: Yilin Edition Oxford High School English (Elective 6)

After all, we've been married for seventeen years.

Efter alt, har vi været gift i syttende år.

Source: The Moon and Sixpence (Condensed Version)

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