Siebzehn
Seventeen
Language note: 'Siebzehn' drops the 'en' from 'sieben'.
Culture note: Seventeen is an age when many start apprenticeships in Germany.
Context: While organizing leftovers, Maria jests, 'It feels like I made food for seventeen people!'
Word-by-Word Breakdown
Siebzehn
[zeep-tsayn]
Seventeen
The number following sixteen.
Siebzehn Leute sind im Kino.
Seventeen people are in the cinema.
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