19 in French
dix-neuf
Updated June 2026
The last teen before twenty
NUMERAL
19
FRENCH
dix-neuf
IPA
/diz.nœf/
Breakdown
10 + 9 = 19
Real sentence examples
“Mon frère aîné a dix-neuf ans.”
“Le dix-neuf mars commémore la fin de la guerre d'Algérie.”
“Le bus dix-neuf arrive dans cinq minutes.”
Pronunciation and morphology notes
Dix-neuf (ten-nine) is the last teen before the round vingt. The x of dix liaises as /z/ into the vowel-initial neuf: /diz.nœf/. After dix-neuf, French resets to the tens-plus-unit pattern with vingt et un, vingt-deux, and so on.
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