Etymology Old English þreo, from Germanic *þrijiz, from PIE *treyes. Cognate to German drei, French trois, Greek τρεις, Russian три.
Cardinal number Arabic numerals: 3 Chinese numerals: 叄, 三 Roman numerals: III Last: two, 2 Next: four, 4 One plus two. The typical number of parts in most monocot flower. Ordinal: third.
Translations Albanian: tre m, tri f Arabic: ثلاثة (tleta) Basque: iru Breton: tri m, teir f Catalan: tres Cornish: tri m, teyr f Chinese: 三 Czech: tři Dutch: drie Esperanto: tri Estonian: kolm Finnish: kolme French: trois Frisian: trije German: drei Greek: τρία (tria) Guarani: mbohapy Hebrew: שלוש f (Used in counting), ארבעה (Ar'ba'a) m Hungarian: három Icelandic: þrír m, þrjár f, þrjú n Indonesian: tiga Ido: tri Interlingua: tres Italian: tre Japanese: 三 (さん, san; み, mi), 三つ (みっつ, mittsu) Kalaallisut: pingasut Korean: 셋 (set)/세 (se)/석 (seok); 삼 (三; sam) Latin: tres Lojban: ci Manchu: ilan Marshallese: jilu Nahuatl: yei Norwegian: tre Old English: þrie, þreo Polish: trzy Portuguese: três Romanian: trei Russian: три Slovio: tri Spanish: tres Swedish: tre Thai: สาม Tok Pisin: tripela Tupinambá: mosapyr Turkish: üç Vietnamese: ba Welsh: tri m, tair f Noun The digit/figure 3. Translations Finnish: kolmonen French: trois m German: Drei f Hebrew: שלוש f
