stin ستين
Tunisian Derja · numeral
“stin” (ستين) is a numeral in Tunisian Derja meaning sixty.
Meanings
- sixty
Usage
Stin is the number sixty, used alone or in compound numbers, always placed after the unit and linked by "w": khamsa w stin (sixty-five), tlatha w stin (sixty-three). It is heard for ages, prices, measurements and percentages. The counted noun that follows stays singular: stin dinar, stin metr. The pitfall for an English speaker is the order of the elements, which is the reverse of English ("five and sixty"). Derja does not follow the French soixante-dix / quatre-vingts logic: seventy is sab3in, a number in its own right.
Example
عمرو خمسة و ستين عام
3omrou khamsa w stin 3am
“He is sixty-five years old.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “stin” but also “settin”, “sittin”, “steen” and “seteen”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.
Type “stin” on the Arabic keyboard
In Moroccan Darija
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Moroccan Darija, where it means “sixty”: stin in Moroccan.