How to Say "Twenty Seven" in Italian

ventisette

/ˌven.tiˈsɛt.te/

The English phrase "twenty seven" is translated into Italian as ventisette.

ventisette is used to represent the number that follows twenty-six and precedes twenty-eight.

What does it mean word for word?

The word is a combination of venti (twenty) and sette (seven).

As a number, ventisette is invariable, meaning it does not change regardless of the gender or number of the nouns it modifies.

The word has 4 syllables, with the stress on the 3rd syllable. The IPA pronunciation is /ˌven.tiˈsɛt.te/.

If you are using ventisette to describe a date, such as 'the 27th', you must include the definite article il to say il ventisette. This turns the number into an ordinal concept without changing the word's form.
In Italian, the number 'seven' in ventisette is 'sette', which shares a linguistic ancestor with the English word 'septet' or the prefix 'sept-' used in 'September' (originally the seventh month).
In Italian numbering, ventisette is one of the few compound numbers where the spelling is a simple concatenation of venti and sette. This differs from numbers ending in one or eight, where the final vowel of the ten-group is dropped for phonetic reasons.

Io ho ventisette anni.
I'm twenty-seven years old.
This sentence is useful for stating your age using ventisette.
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Ci sono ventisette alunni nella mia classe.
There are twenty-seven pupils in my class.
This sentence is useful for stating the quantity of pupils in a class using ventisette.
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Ho ventisette anni.
I am twenty-seven years old.
Prendiamo il ventisettesimo piano.
Let's take the twenty-seventh floor.
Mancano ventisette giorni.
There are twenty-seven days left.
Il numero della casa è ventisette.
The house number is twenty-seven.
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