quince

/ˈkinθe/, [ˈkĩn̟.θe]

fifteen


Examples
  • Fui profesor durante quince años.

    I was a teacher for fifteen years.

  • Son quince minutos andando.

    It's fifteen minutes on foot.

  • Durante quince días me esforcé para demostrar eso.

    For fifteen days I strove to prove that.

  • Por aquel entonces, solo teníamos quince años.

    At the time, we were just fifteen years old.

  • Ella ganó una medalla cuando tenía apenas quince años de edad.

    She won a medal when she was just 15 years old.

  • Hay que cocer las castañas por al menos quince minutos.

    Chestnuts have to be boiled for at least fifteen minutes.

  • Son las tres menos quince.

    It's a quarter to three.

  • Diez, once, doce, trece, catorce, quince, dieciséis, diecisiete, dieciocho, diecinueve, veinte.

    Ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, twenty.

  • Estudios ingleses sobre el uso de los móviles por los jóvenes muestran situaciones verdaderamente preocupantes, donde un chico de seis a veinte años cada día envía de media diecinueve mensajes, recibe quince y hace nueve llamadas.

    English studies on the use of cell phones by young people show truly worrying situations, in which a person between the ages of six and twenty sends an average of twenty nine messages, receives fifteen, and makes nine calls each day.

  • No hay toallas en la habitación número quince.

    There are no towels in room 15.

  • Sólo son quince minutos en bus de aquí al aeropuerto.

    It's only a fifteen minute bus ride from here to the airport.

  • El número de estudiantes en esta clase está limitado a un máximo de quince.

    The number of students in the class is limited to fifteen.

  • Tom solo tiene quince minutos para almorzar.

    Tom is only given fifteen minutes to eat his lunch.

  • Judíos huyeron de la Inquisición española y se refugiaron en el Imperio Otomano en el siglo quince.

    Jews fled the Spanish Inquisition and took shelter in Ottoman Empire in the fifteenth century.

  • Sólo nos tomó quince minutos terminar la labor.

    It only took us fifteen minutes to complete the job.

  • Estaré en el campo quince días.

    I'll be in the country two weeks.

  • Tom debería estar aquí dentro de quince minutos.

    Tom should be here within fifteen minutes.

  • Él se aburrió a los quince minutos.

    He got bored after fifteen minutes.

  • Tom estuvo fuera sólo durante quince minutos.

    Tom was only gone for fifteen minutes.

  • Ken tendrá quince años el año que viene.

    Ken will be fifteen next year.


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