NINETEEN

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Traducere în limba română

nineteen numeral, adjectiv pronume, substantiv

nouăsprezece;

to talk / to go nineteen to the dozen a vorbi ca o moară stricată, a (te) asurzi cu vorba.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen and six, result happiness.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

“Come, that's better. Five against three leaves us four to nine. That's better odds than we had at starting. We were seven to nineteen then, or thought we were, and that's as bad to bear.” *

(Treasure Island, de Robert Louis Stevenson)

For myself, at least, I must confess being not always so attentive as I ought to be (here was a glance at Fanny); that nineteen times out of twenty I am thinking how such a prayer ought to be read, and longing to have it to read myself.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

At nineteen, you know, one does not think very seriously; but Mr Elliot appeared to me quite as good as others, and much more agreeable than most others, and we were almost always together.

(Persuasion, de Jane Austen)

There was a numerous family; but the only two grown up, excepting Charles, were Henrietta and Louisa, young ladies of nineteen and twenty, who had brought from school at Exeter all the usual stock of accomplishments, and were now like thousands of other young ladies, living to be fashionable, happy, and merry.

(Persuasion, de Jane Austen)

It was in nineteen-nineteen, I only stayed five months. That's why I can't really call myself an Oxford man.

(The Great Gatsby, de F. Scott Fitzgerald)

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