Year to Words Converter: 1999 Written Out in Words, in US American and UK British English, Spelled Out in Different Letter Cases

Convert and write out the year 1999 in words, spell it out in English

A year is nothing but the time taken by the Earth to make one complete revolution around the Sun, i.e. about 365 1/4 days (365 days in a common year and 366 in a leap year). The years we convert: natural numbers between 1 and 9,999

The year 1999 is converted from digits to words in (US) American English & (UK) British English and written using these letter cases:

(1) lowercase (2) UPPERCASE (3) Title Case (4) Sentence case (5) Start Case (6) camelCase (7) Hyphen-case (8) Snake_case.


Letter case 1 of 8
the year 1999 written out in words in:
lowercase
all lowercase letters:


Both American and British English:
the year nineteen ninety-nine

Letter case 2 of 8
THE YEAR 1999 SPELLED OUT IN:
UPPERCASE
ALL UPPERCASE LETTERS:

Both American and British English:
THE YEAR NINETEEN NINETY-NINE


Letter case 3 of 8
The Year 1999 Converted to words in:
Title Case * (note below)
Capital Letters at the Beginning of the Main Words:

Both American and British English:
The Year Nineteen Ninety-Nine


Both American and British English:
The year Nineteen ninety-nine


Letter case 5 of 8
The Year 1999 SPELLED OUT IN:
Start Case
Capital Letters At The Beginning Of All Words:

Both American and British English:
The Year Nineteen Ninety-Nine


Letter case 6 of 8
theYear 1999 Converted to words in:
camelCase
first letter in lower case,
subsequent words' first letters in uppercase
spaces and punctuation removed:

Both American and British English:
theYear nineteenNinetyNine

Both American and British English:
the-year nineteen-ninety-nine


Letter case 8 of 8
the_year 1999 SPELLED OUT IN:
snake_case
punctuation _ removed
spaces _ replaced _ by _ underscores:

Both American and British English:
the_year nineteen_ninety_nine




Notes on the Letter Cases used to write out in words the number above:

  • 1: Lowercase: only lowercase letters are used. Example: 'seventy-six and two tenths'.
  • 2: Uppercase: only uppercase letters are used. Example: 'SEVENTY-SIX AND TWO TENTHS'.
  • 3. Title Case: the first letters of the words are capitalized, except for certain short words, such as articles, conjunctions and short prepositions, 'a', 'an', 'the', 'and', 'but', 'for', 'at', 'by', 'to', 'or', 'in', etc. Example: 'Seventy-Six and Two Tenths'.
  • 4. Sentence case: only the first letter of the first word at the beginning of the sentence is capitalized. Example: 'Seventy-six and two tenths'.
  • 5. Start Case: the first letter of each word is capitalized without any exception. Example: 'Seventy-Six And Two Tenths'.
  • 6. Camel Case: text has no spaces nor punctuation and the first letter of each word is capitalized except for the very first letter in the series. Example: 'seventySixAndTwoTenths'.
  • 7. Hyphen Case: text has no spaces nor punctuation and the words are delimited by hyphen. Example: 'seventy-six-and-two-tenths'. Hyphen Case can be lowercase or uppercase.
  • 8. Snake Case: text has no spaces nor punctuation and the words are delimited by underscore. Example: 'seventy_six_and_two_tenths'. Snake Case can be lowercase or uppercase.

Notes on Writing Out Numbers and Years:

  • 1: In American English, unlike British English, when writing out years of three or more digits, the word 'and' is not used after 'hundred' or 'thousand'; i.e. 963 is written out as 'nine sixty-three' (American English) and not as 'nine hundred and sixty-three' (British English); 2025 is 'two thousand twenty-five' (American English) and not 'two thousand and twenty-five' (British English).
  • 2. Up to 1999 the years are spoken as hundreds, but for shortening, the words 'hundred and' are omitted: i. e. 1999 = 'nineteen (hundred and) ninety-nine' = 'nineteen ninety-nine'.
  • 3. After the year 2000 the years are spoken as normal numbers, but for shortening, in colloquial language, the years are pronounced in groups of two: i. e. 2000 = 'two thousand'; 2001 = 'two thousand (and) one', but also 'twenty oh one'.
  • 4. Do not use commas when writing in digits years above 999; i.e. it is 1234; 1973, 2021, and not 1,234; 1,973, 2,021.
  • 5: It's correct to hyphenate all compound numbers from 'twenty-one' (21) through 'ninety-nine' (99). The hyphen is the minus sign, as in 'thirty-four' (34).

How to say and write out years in words in American and British English

1. How to convert years to words in American and British English, how to write them out?

1.1. For years ending with three zeros:

  • 1000 = the year one thousand, in both American and British English;
  • 2000 = the year two thousand, in both American and British English;
  • 3000 = the year three thousand, in both American and British English;

1.2. For years ending with two zeros:

  • 1700 = the year seventeen hundred, in both American and British English;
  • 1800 = the year eighteen hundred, in both American and British English;
  • 1900 = the year nineteen hundred, in both American and British English;

1.3. If only the second digit is zero, there are three ways of writing out the year:

  • 1059 = the year ten fifty-nine, in both American and British English;
  • 1059 = the year one thousand fifty-nine, in American English;
  • 1059 = the year one thousand and fifty-nine, in British English;
  • 2018 = the year twenty eighteen, in both American and British English;
  • 2018 = the year two thousand eighteen, in American English;
  • 2018 = the year two thousand and eighteen, in British English;

1.4. If only the third digit is zero, there are two ways of writing out the year:

  • 1609 = the year sixteen oh nine, in American English;
  • 1609 = the year sixteen hundred and nine, in British English;
  • 1902 = the year nineteen oh two, in American English;
  • 1902 = the year nineteen hundred and two, in British English;
  • 2108 = the year twenty-one oh eight, in American English;
  • 2108 = the year twenty-one hundred and eight, in British English;

1.5. In general, when the first three digits of the year are different of zero, we write the first two and the second two digits as if they were single numbers:

  • 1870 = the year eighteen seventy, in both American and British English;
  • 1878 = the year eighteen seventy-eight, in both American and British English;
  • 1970 = the year nineteen seventy, in both American and British English;
  • 1973 = the year nineteen seventy-three, in both American and British English;
  • 2110 = the year twenty-one ten, in both American and British English;
  • 2115 = the year twenty-one fifteen, in both American and British English;

1.6. For years before 1000, we often say the first digit separately, then the last two as a single number, taking into account all the rules that were listed above:

  • 474 = the year four seventy-four, in both American and British English;
  • 474 = the year four hundred and seventy-four, in British English;
  • 906 = the year nine oh six, in both American and British English;
  • 906 = the year nine hundred and six, in British English;
  • 43 = the year forty-three, in both American and British English;
  • 17 = the year seventeen, in both American and British English;

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