twelve

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Alternative forms

• Arabic numerals: 12
• Roman numerals: XII

Etymology

From Old English twelf from Proto-Germanic *twalif-, an old compound of *twa- (“two”) and *-lif (“left over”), from Proto-Indo-European *leikw- (“leave, remain”).

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA: /twɛlv/

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• Rhymes: -ɛlv

Cardinal number

twelve

1. The cardinal number occurring after eleven and before thirteen, represented in Arabic numerals as 12 and in Roman numerals as XII.

   There are twelve months in a year.

Related terms

• Ordinal: twelfth.

Translations

cardinal number 12

Afrikaans: twaalf (af) Albanian: dymbëdhjetë (sq) Amharic: ዐሥራ ሁለት (aäsra hulät) (numeral: ፲፪) Arabic: إثْنا عَشَرَ (ar) ('ithnaa 3ashara) (numeral: ١٢) Egyptian Arabic: اتناشر (itnaashar) Aramaic: Syriac: ܬܪܥܣܪ (tre‘sar) m., ܬܪܬܥܣܪܐ (tarta‘esrē) f. Armenian: տասներկու (hy) (tasnerku) Azeri: on iki (az) Basque: hamabi (eu) Bengali: বারো (bn) (baro) (numeral: ১২) Breton: daouzek Bulgarian: дванадесет (bg) (dvanádeset) Burmese: ဆယ့်နှစ် (my) (hsè.hnit) Catalan: dotze Chamicuro: chunka ma'pojta Chechen: шийтта (šiytta) Chinese: 十二 (shíèr) (numeral: 拾貳) Czech: dvanáct (cs) Danish: tolv (da) Dena'ina: nutiha beq'di Dutch: twaalf (nl) Esperanto: dek du (eo) Estonian: kaksteist (et) Faroese: tólv (fo) Finnish: kaksitoista (fi) French: douze (fr) Galician: doce (gl) Garífuna: dûsu Georgian: თორმეტი (ka) (t’ermeti) German: zwölf (de) Greek: δώδεκα (el) (dódeka) Gujarati: બાર (numeral: ૧૨) Haitian Creole: douz Hebrew: תרעסר (tre‘sar) m., תרתעסרא (tarta‘esrē) f. Hebrew: שְׁתֵּים־עֶשְׂרֵה (shteim esre) f. (used in counting), שְׁנֵים־עָשָׂר (shneim asar) m. Hindi: बारह (bārah) (numeral: १२) Hopi: pakwt niikyang löqmuy siikya’ta Hungarian: tizenkettő (hu) Icelandic: tólf (is) Indonesian: dua belas Interlingua: dece-duo, duodece Irish: dó dhéag (ga) Italian: dodici (it) Japanese: 十二 (じゅうに, jūni) Kalaallisut: aqqaniq-marluk Kannada: please add this translation if you can: (numeral: ೧೨) Khmer: ដប់ពីរ (dop pī) (numeral: ១២)

Korean: 열둘 (yeoldul) Kurdish: Kurmanji: dazde (ku), diwazde Sorani: دوانزه‌, دوازده‌ Lao: ສິບສອງ (lo) (sip-sööng) (numeral: ໑໒) Latgalian: divpadsmit Latin: duodecim (la) Latvian: divpadsmit (lv) Livonian: kakštuoistõn Macedonian: дванаесет (mk) (dvanáeset) Malayalam: പന്ത്രണ്ട് (ml) Maltese: tnax Manchu: (juwan juwe) Manx: daa yeig Mongolian: арван хоёр (mn) (arvan hoyor) (numeral: ᠑᠒) Navajo: naakitsʼáadah Norwegian: tolv (no) Novial: dek-du Ojibwe: ashi-niizh Oriya: please add this translation if you can: (numeral: ୧୨) Persian: دوازده (fa) Polish: dwanaście (pl) Portuguese: doze (pt) Punjabi: ਬਾਰਾਂ (pa) (numeral: ੧੨) Romanian: doisprezece m., doișpe (m, informal), douăsprezece f. & n., douășpe (f & n, informal) Russian: двенадцать (ru) (dvenádtsat’) Sanskrit: dvaadashan Scottish Gaelic: dà dheug (gd), a dhà dheug (gd) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: два́нае̄ст (sh) Roman: dvánaēst (sh) Sinhalese: දොළහ (dholaha) Slovak: dvanásť (sk) Slovene: dvanajst (sl) Spanish: doce (es) Swedish: tolv (sv) Tagalog: labindalawa Tamil: please add this translation if you can: (numeral: ௰௨) Telugu: పండ్రెండు (te) (pamḍremḍu) (numeral: ౧౨) Thai: สิบสอง (sìp sŏng) (numeral: ๑๒) Tibetan: please add this translation if you can: (numeral: ༡༢) Turkish: on iki (tr) Urdu: بارہ (ur) (baarah) Vilamovian: cwełf Volapük: degtel (vo) Welsh: deuddeg (vigesimal, traditional), un deg dau (decimal) West Frisian: tolf, tolve Zuni: asdemłan kwili yałdo'

See also

• Last: eleven. Next: thirteen

Noun

twelve (plural twelves)

1. A group of twelve items.

   Fractions would be a little easier if we counted by twelves.

Related terms

• twelfth

See also

• dozen

Statistics

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