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quatre-vingts

French, number/ka.tʁə.vɛ̃/

quatre-vingts is a French number meaning “eighty, 80” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

What does quatre-vingts mean in English?

number

  1. 1

    eighty, 80

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. Soixante-dix-neuf plus un, soit huit fois dix, adjectif numéral cardinal correspondant au nombre 80.

noun: 1. Nombre 80, entier naturel après soixante-dix-neuf. 2. Chose portant le numéro 80. 3. Année qui se termine par 80, par exemple 1980.

The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.

Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of quatre-vingts

  • quatrevingts rare obsolete
  • quatre-vingt

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce quatre-vingts?

  • /ka.tʁə.vɛ̃/
  • \ka.tʁə.vɛ̃\
  • [ka.tʁə.vɛ̃]

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to quatre-vingts

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.