sixty-nine

English

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Cardinal: sixty-nine     Ordinal: sixty-ninth     Adverbial: sixty-nine times

Pronunciation

• (General American) enPR: sĭks'tē-nīnʹ, IPA^(key): /ˌsɪkstiˈnaɪn/

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• Hyphenation: six‧ty-nine
• Rhymes: -aɪn

Etymology 1

Number

sixty-nine

1. The cardinal number immediately following sixty-eight and preceding seventy.

Synonyms

• Arabic numerals: 69
• Roman numerals: LXIX

Derived terms

• sixty-niner, sixtyniner
• sixty-ninth

Translations

cardinal number

• Afrikaans: nege-en-sestig (af)
• Arabic: تِسْعَة وَسِتُّون (tisʕa(t) wasittūn)
• Armenian: վաթսուն ինը (vatʻsun inə)
• Azerbaijani: altmış doqquz (az)
• Basque: hirurogeita bederatzi (eu)
• Belarusian: шэ́сцьдзесят дзе́вяць (šéscʹdzjesjat dzjévjacʹ)
• Bengali: উনসত্তর (bn) (unośottor)
• Breton: nav ha tri-ugent
• Catalan: seixanta-nou (ca)
• Cherokee: ᏑᏓᎵᏍᎪ ᏐᏁᎳ (sudalisgo sonela)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 六十九 (luk⁶ sap⁶ gau²)

  Mandarin: 六十九 (liùshíjiǔ)

• Danish: niogtres
• Dutch: negenenzestig (nl)
• Esperanto: sesdek naŭ
• Finnish: kuusikymmentäyhdeksän
• French: soixante-neuf (fr) m
• Galician: sesenta e nove (gl)
• Georgian: სამოცდაცხრა (samocdacxra)
• German: neunundsechzig (de)
• Greek: εξήντα εννέα n (exínta ennéa)
• Hebrew: ששים־ותשעה (shishím və-téysha)
• Hindi: उनहत्तर (hi) (unhattar)
• Hungarian: hatvankilenc (hu)
• Icelandic: sextíu og níu (is)
• Italian: sessantanove (it)
• Japanese: 六十九 (ろくじゅうきゅう, rokujūkyū)
• Korean: 예순아홉 (yesunahop), 육십구 (ko) (yuksipgu)
• Lao: ຫົກສິບເກົ້າ (hok sip kao)
• Latin: sexaginta novem
• Lombard: sessanta-neuv
• Macedonian: шеесет и девет (šeeset i devet)
• Malay: enam puluh sembilan
• Malayalam: അറുപത്തൊമ്പത് (aṟupattompatŭ), അറുപത്തി ഒൻപത് (aṟupatti oṉpatŭ)
• Navajo: hastą́diin dóó baʼąą náhástʼéí
• Norwegian: niogseksti
• Old English: nigon and sixtiġ
• Pashto: نه شپېتۀ (nəh špetə)
• Persian: شصت و نه (šast va noh)
• Polish: sześćdziesiąt dziewięć
• Portuguese: sessenta e nove (pt)
• Romanian: șaizeci și nouă
• Russian: шестьдеся́т де́вять (ru) (šestʹdesját dévjatʹ)
• Sanskrit: एकोनाशीतितम (ekonāśītitama)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrilli: шездесет девет

  Roman: šezdeset devet

• Spanish: sesenta y nueve
• Swahili: sitini na tisa
• Swedish: sextionio (sv)
• Thai: หกสิบเก้า
• Tok Pisin: sikispela ten nain
• Turkish: altmış dokuz (tr)
• Ukrainian: шістдеся́т де́в'ять (šistdesját dévʺjatʹ)
• Yup'ik: yuinaat pingayun qulngunritaraan

Etymology 2

Calque of French soixante-neuf, from the rotational symmetry of the numeral 69 — if rotated a half-turn (by 180°), the numeral remains the same, and a couple both giving oral sex at once have, in principle, a similar rotational symmetry.

Noun

sixty-nine (countable and uncountable, plural sixty-nines)

1. (sexuality) A sex position where two people give each other oral sex at the same time.

   Synonym: soixante-neuf

   Coordinate terms: cunnilingus, fellatio, clusterfuck

Translations

sex position

• Breton: nav ha tri-ugent
• Catalan: seixanta-nou (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 69式 (zh) (liùjiǔ shì), 六十九式 (liùshíjiǔ shì)

• Danish: niogtres, 69'er
• Dutch: standje 69
• Esperanto: sesdeknaŭo
• Finnish: kuusysi, 69-asento
• French: soixante-neuf (fr) m
• Galician: sesenta e nove (gl)
• German: Neunundsechzig (de) f
• Greek: εξήντα εννέα n (exínta ennéa)
• Hungarian: hatvankilences, hatvankilenc (hu), 69-es
• Italian : sessantanove (it)
• Japanese: シックスナイン (shikkusunain)
• Korean: 69, 육구 (yukgu)
• Macedonian: по́за ше́есет и де́вет f (póza šéeset i dévet)
• Maltese: maqlubin
• Portuguese: meia-nove
• Russian: по́за 69 f (póza 69), по́за шестьдеся́т де́вять f (póza šestʹdesját dévjatʹ)
• Spanish: sesenta y nueve
• Thai: 69 (69), หกเก้า
• Turkish: altmış dokuz (tr)
• Welsh: chwedeg naw m

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Arabic: ^{(please verify)} تِسْعَة وَسِتُّون (tisʕa wa-sittūn)
• Dutch: ^{(please verify)} negenenzestig (nl)
• Hebrew: ^{(please verify)} ששים־ותשעה (šiším və-téyša)
• Icelandic: ^{(please verify)} sextíu og níu (is)
• Italian: ^{(please verify)} sessantanove (it)
• Latin: ^{(please verify)} sexaginta novem
• Persian: ^{(please verify)} شصت و نه (šast o noh)
• Romanian: ^{(please verify)} șaizeci și nouă
• Sanskrit: ^{(please verify)} नवषष्टि (sa) (návaṣaṣṭi), ^{(please verify)} एकोनसप्तति (ekonasaptatí)
• Spanish: ^{(please verify)} sesenta y nueve

Verb

sixty-nine (third-person singular simple present sixty-nines, present participle sixty-nining, simple past and past participle sixty-nined)

1. (slang) To have sex in the sixty-nine position: to engage in mutual oral sex.
   • 1995, Alanis Morissette (lyrics and music), “Right Through You”, in Jagged Little Pill:

     You pat me on the head / You took me out to wine, dine, sixty-nine me / But didn't hear a damn word I said

Further reading

• sixty-nine on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• 69 (sex position) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

See also

• 69
• *69

Anagrams

• ninety-six