German

Alternative forms

Colloquial forms are

• fuffzehn [ˈfʊftseːn] in northern and central Germany;
• fuchzehn [ˈfʊxtseːn] in southern Germany and Austria.

These forms are frequent in pronunciation, but rare in writing, the more so as numerals above 12 are usually not written out in German texts.

Numeral

fünfzehn

1. fifteen

Related terms

• fünf
• zehn

Coordinate terms