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# fourteen

«fourteen» in Mova's school dictionary: **The number 14: ten plus four, one more than thirteen** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

number / determiner and pronoun (fourteen); noun (a fourteen — rare)

### meaning for a pupil

The number 14: ten plus four, one more than thirteen. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fourteen/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In maths: 14 = 10 + 4 = 2 × 7; it is even, not prime; its factors are 1, 2, 7 and 14. Two weeks have fourteen days (a fortnight). Fourteen is a teen number. Ordinal: fourteenth (14th).

### examples

- There are fourteen children in my group. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fourteen/#x1)
- Seven times two is fourteen. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fourteen/#x2)
- My big sister is fourteen years old. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fourteen/#x3)
- A fortnight is fourteen days. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fourteen/#x4)
- The bus number fourteen goes to the library. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fourteen/#x5)
- Fourteen minus five equals nine. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fourteen/#x6)
- We need fourteen chairs for the party. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fourteen/#x7)
- Thus time went on, till Balna's son was fourteen years old. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fourteen/#x8)

### note

Spelling: fourteen keeps the u of «four», but «forty» (40) has no u — a common trap. Stress: four-TEEN when counting alone; listen carefully to tell fourteen (14) from forty (40). Ordinal: fourteenth. In a word problem «fourteen each» means 14 for every one.

### Trees and pragmatics

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