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# forty

«forty» in Mova's school dictionary: **the number 40, four tens** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

number (forty, 40)

### meaning for a pupil

Forty is the number 40, four tens. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/forty/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

maths: a number word that gives a quantity; 40 = 4 × 10 = 5 × 8; forty minutes, forty pages; everyday life: forty winks means a short nap

### examples

- There are forty pupils in the hall. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/forty/#x1)
- A box holds forty pencils. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/forty/#x2)
- He ran forty metres. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/forty/#x3)
- Forty minus twelve is twenty-eight. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/forty/#x4)
- The lesson lasts forty minutes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/forty/#x5)
- Forty is double twenty. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/forty/#x6)
- Grandpa took forty winks after lunch. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/forty/#x7)
- "Six, eight, ten--twenty, forty," said he. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/forty/#x8)

### note

Read it as the number 40. Trap: spelled «forty», not «fourty»; do not confuse with fourteen (14).

### Trees and pragmatics

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