If you want to know how 16 is written in letters, we tell you that this natural number is correctly written as follows: sixteen.
When sixteen is written, this comes from the spelling of the numbers ten and six, when these words are put together, sixteen remains, but as an acute word, it is necessary to put the accent on it and thus sixteen remains, since otherwise the first way would be incorrect.
The number sixteen, then, is a compound that is given by the sum of the number ten and the number six, this number is the next of fifteen and the predecessor of seventeen.
It is normal for the person to be confused as to whether this number is written with S or with C, so it is important to pay attention and remember that the word tenth will go with C, and then six will go, the latter comes from the number 6, so do not there is reason to be confused. It is also important to stress the word sixteen because it is an acute word that ends in S, these types of words are the ones that carry the accent on the last syllable and the rule says that those that end in S, N or a vowel should be accented: die- ci-six.
Ordinal number
If you intend to write this number in ordinal form, it would be sixteenth.
The numbers
Those whole numbers that are from zero to fifteen and also hundreds, tens and thousands, are simple words (twenty – thirty – forty – fifty – sixty – seventy – eighty – ninety – one hundred – two hundred – three hundred – four hundred – five hundred, six hundred – etc.)
On the other hand, the numbers that are from sixteen to nineteen, and also from twenty-one and twenty-nine, are formed by a union or also called juxtaposition of two integers, from the number 31 (thirty-one), the written form will be constituted By coordination of the simple cardinal numbers, examples: thirty-three, forty-five, eighty-four, ninety-nine, etc.
Examples
I am turning sixteen years old.
There are sixteen tickets left for the play.
They released a total of sixteen thousand copies.
She got pregnant very young, at sixteen.
The sixteenth of October.
There are sixteen students in the classroom.
I have sixteen books on spelling.
In roman numerals
Sixteen in Roman numerals is written as follows: XVI, thus we see that this number is made up of two figures when we make an Arabic numeral (16) and three figures when this number is made with the Roman form.
How to spell 16 in other languages?
If you want to know how this number is written in letters and in other languages, here are some ways.
German: sechzehn
French: seize
English: seventeen
Italian: sedici
Portuguese: dezesseis
Romanian: șaisprezece
Albanian: gjashtëmbëdhjetë
Armenian: ԁ
Bengali: ষোল
Belarusian: шаснаццаць
Burmese: ဆယျ့ခွောကျ
Kasajo: он алты
Bosnian: šesnaest
Bulgarian: shestnadeset
Cambodian: ដប់ប្រាំមួយ
Catalan: setze
Czech: šestnáct
Chinese: 十六
Korean: 열여섯
Croatian: šesnaest
Danish: seksten
Slovak: šestnásť
Slovenian: šestnajst
Esperanto: dekses
Estonian: dekses
Finnish: kuusitoista
Welsh: ar bymtheg
Galician: dezaseis
Georgian: თექვსმეტი
Greek: δεκαέξι
Hawaiian: he umikumamaono
Hindi: सोलह
Dutch: zestien
Hungarian: tizenhat
Indonesian: embala
Irish: be déag
Icelandic: sextan
Latin: sedecim
Latvian: sešpadsmit
Lithuanian: šešiolika
Luxembourgish: Aachtelsfinalë
Macedonian: шеснаесет
Malay: enambelas
Maltese: sittax
Mongolian: arvan zurgaan
Nepali: सोह्र
Norwegian: seksten
Polish: szesnaście
Russian: шестнадцать
Serbian: шеснаест
Somali: lix iyo toban
Swedish: sexton
Thai: สิบหก
Tamil: பதினாறு
Turkish: on altı
Ukrainian: шістнадцять
Note
If it is hard for you to know how to write the numbers, we tell you that you are not the only person, even if you follow the rules, it is something very easy to learn and you will have excellent spelling when writing the numbers. Remember then that in the specific number of 16, you must write it first with C since it comes from ten (10), then with S since it comes to be the word six (6) and put an accent on it because it is an acute word ending in S.