ثَمَانُونَeighty

Example sentences

• وَالْقَوْمُ ثَمَانُونَ رَجُلًا

  And the people were eighty men.

  ثَمَانُونَ — eighty. This is the 'tens' number eighty, here doing the job of telling you how many the people were, so it acts as the predicate completing 'the people were ___'. Numbers like this take a special ending shared with the masculine sound plural, which is why it ends in -una rather than the simple noun ending.

  From: The Barley Loaf That Fed Eighty →