thirty-six

Thân thiện

A child counts thirty-six colorful marbles on the floor.

Definition

Adjective: Being six more than thirty; the cardinal number that is the sum of thirty and six.

Usage

This word functions exclusively as an adjective or a determiner to describe a quantity. It is a compound numeral formed from the base numbers "thirty" and "six."

Examples

• The classic film has a running time of thirty-six minutes.
• A survey found that thirty-six percent of respondents agreed with the statement.
• She needed thirty-six inches of fabric to complete the project.

Advanced Usage

• As a nominal (representing the number itself): "Thirty-six is a perfect square." (Here, "thirty-six" names the abstract number.)
• In hyphenated compound adjectives: It is standard to hyphenate compound numbers from twenty-one to ninety-nine when they are used as adjectives before a noun.
  • Example: "He bought a thirty-six-inch television."

Variants and Related Words

• 36: The Arabic numeral form.
• XXXVI: The Roman numeral form.
• Six and thirty: An archaic or poetic form, now rarely used in modern English.

Synonyms

• 6 and 30
• Three dozen (specifically for countable items, as one dozen equals twelve).

Học thuật

Adjective

1. being six more than thirty

Từ đồng nghĩa

• 36
• xxxvi