🇬🇧 Listen & Repeat (English)
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The number 10. It comes after nine. Ten is the base of our decimal number system.
Ordinal: tenth. Common collocations: ten out of ten (a perfect score), ten-minute break, ten o'clock. The prefix 'deci-' means ten (decimal, decade = ten years, December was originally the tenth month).
10 Downing Street is the official home and office of the British Prime Minister. 'A perfect ten' means someone or something is absolutely perfect. Counting 'ten to one' is used to build anticipation. The Ten Commandments are central to Christian and Jewish traditions.
Example Sentences
"There are ten books for people to use."
🇯🇵 "人々が使えるように本が10冊あります。(Hitobito ga tsukaeru yō ni hon ga jūsatsu arimasu.)"
"A person has ten fingers."
🇯🇵 "人は指が10本あります。(Hito wa yubi ga jūppon arimasu.)"
Fill in the Blank 🇬🇧 English
There are ___ books for people to use.
Practice Quiz
1. Ten out of ten means:
2. Where is 10 Downing Street?