How to spell forty-three

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What it means: Being equal to forty plus three.

In a sentence: There are forty-three crayons in the box.

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Same family: forty, three, thirty-three, forty-four, forty-third. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Forty is spelled without a "u" in modern English, unlike "four," because the spelling was simplified in the 1600s. The compound number "forty-three" simply combines "forty" and "three" with a hyphen, following the standard pattern for English numbers from twenty-one to ninety-nine.

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