six

Meaning

six

Concepts

six

6

half dozen

half-dozen

vi

Captain Hicks

VI

half a dozen

hexad

sestet

sextet

sextuplet

sise

sixer

sixty

units

Pronounced as (IPA)

/sis/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French six, from Old French sis, six, from Latin sex, from Proto-Indo-European *swéḱs.
The numbers six and dix (“ten”), as well as the pronoun tous (“all”), are remnants of the Old and Middle French pronunciation system where final -s or -x was silent before consonants, pronounced /z/ before vowels, and /s/ in pausa. The only change is that the pausal pronunciation is now invariably used when these words do not precede their referent.

Sentences

Bo Yibo est marié et père de six enfants .

Bo Yibo is married with six children.

Il a gravi six fois le Mont Blanc .

He climbed Mont Blanc six times.

Six jours !... répondit ce diable de Tony Renault .

Six days!... replied this devil of Tony Renault.

Records et regroupe des chansons des six premiers albums de Tony Joe White.

Records and includes songs from Tony Joe White's first six albums.

Alors que Cliburn a six ans , sa famille déménage à Kilgore, au Texas .

When Cliburn was six, his father, who worked in the oil industry, moved the family to Kilgore, Texas near Longview.

Six jours dans la vie du lycéen Kolia Smirnov.

Six days in the life of high school student Kolia Smirnov.

Il ne reste qu'une année en Bretagne avant de rejoindre Strasbourg , pendant six saisons .

There is only one year left in Brittany before joining Strasbourg, for six seasons.

La parole est à Monsieur Patrick Hetzel, pour soutenir l’amendement numéro six cent quatre-vingt-dix-sept .

Mr Patrick Hetzel has the floor to support amendment number six hundred and ninety-seven.