Nineteenth has 2 syllables and the stress is on the first syllable.
| # | Sentence | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Not until the end of the nineteenth century, did plant breeding become a scientific discipline. | |
| 2. | Even at the end of the nineteenth century, sailors in the British Navy were not permitted to use knives and forks because using them was considered a sign of weakness. | |
| 3. | The nineteenth century was the age of the white man's civilization. | |
| 4. | Modern art has broken away from nineteenth century conventions. | |
| 5. | In the nineteenth century, many Africans were sold as slaves in the United States. | |
| 6. | The first prohibition of slavery was in the mid-nineteenth century. | |
| 7. | Although many European researchers have studied ancient Persian literature in the nineteenth century, the new world is not paying attention to our contemporary literature. | |
| 8. | The most important figure of mathematics of the nineteenth century is, undoubtedly, Gauss. | |
| 9. | Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away. | |
| 10. | Islam arrived in Suriname in the late nineteenth century. |