twelfth

English [edit]

**English ordinal numbers**
< 11th	12th	13th >
Ordinal : twelfth Cardinal : twelve

twelfth (not comparable)

(ordinal) The ordinal form of the number twelve, describing a person or thing in position number 12 of a sequence.

The answer appears on the twelfth page of the book.

She finished twelfth in the race.

ordinal form of the number twelve

Afrikaans: twaalfde (af)
Azeri: on ikinci (az)
Basque: hamabigarren (eu)
Bengali: দ্বাদশ (bn)
Breton: daouzekvet (br)
Chinese:

Mandarin: ‎第十二
Crimean Tatar: on ekinci
Czech: dvanáctý (cs)
Danish: tolvte (da)
Dutch: twaalfde (nl)
Esperanto: dek-dua (eo)
Estonian: kaheteistkümnes (et)
Finnish: kahdestoista (fi)
French: (before the noun) douzième (fr), (in names of monarchs and popes) douze (fr) (after the name)
Georgian: მეთორმეტე (ka) (met’ormete)
German: zwölfte (de)
Greek: δωδέκατος (el) (dodékatos)
Haitian Creole: douzyèm
Hindi: बारहवां (hi) (bārahavāṁ)
Hungarian: tizenkettedik (hu)
Icelandic: tólfta (is)
Ido: duadekesma (io)
Indonesian: keduabelas (id)
Italian: (before the noun) dodicesimo (it) m, (in names of monarchs and popes) dodicesimo (it) m (after the name)

twelfth (plural twelfths)

(fractional) One of twelve equal parts of a whole.

A twelfth of 240 is 20.

Five twelfths of the population voted in support of the proposal.
(music) An interval equal to an octave plus a fifth

one of twelve equal parts of a whole

interval