Bisaya · Cebuano · Vocabulary
dekada
decadenoun
- Alternative meanings
A period of ten years; it can also refer to an era marked by consecutive years, such as the eighties or nineties.
- Pronunciation
deh-KAH-dah
- Root and affixes
Loanword used in Cebuano from Spanish década.
- Variants or conjugations
sandekada, deka-dekada
- Related words and expressions
year, time, century, month, date
- Meaning and usage notes
Dekada is used for a period of ten years. Sandekada can express one decade or ten years.
basiccalendarnumberstime
Usa ka dekada na siya nagpuyo didto.
He/She has lived there for a decade.
Nahitabo kini sa dekada otsenta.
This happened in the eighties.