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# fifty

«fifty» in Mova's school dictionary: **the number 50, five tens** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

number (fifty, 50)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Fifty is the number 50, five tens. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fifty/#m1)

2) Fifty is half of a hundred. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fifty/#m2)

3) «Fifty-fifty» means half and half, or an equal chance. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fifty/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

maths: a number of things counted; half of 100; 50 percent is a half; money: fifty cents, a fifty-dollar bill; chance: fifty-fifty; geography: the USA has fifty states

### examples

- She has fifty marbles. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fifty/#x1)
- Fifty people came to the show. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fifty/#x2)
- A fifty-dollar bill. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fifty/#x3)
- Fifty minus ten is forty. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fifty/#x4)
- The USA has fifty states. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fifty/#x5)
- Fifty is half of a hundred. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fifty/#x6)
- We split the cost fifty-fifty. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fifty/#x7)
- Fifty cents is half a dollar. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fifty/#x8)
- Here are fifty talers for you. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fifty/#x9)

### note

A number written as a word: 50. Trap: do not mix up fifty (50) and fifteen (15). Fifty percent = one half.

### In the corpora

- [And again he sent unto him another captain of fifty with his fifty.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2KI.12/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «fifty» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fifty/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.