English [edit]
Alternative forms [edit]
- Arabic numerals: 20 (see for numerical forms in other scripts)
- Roman numerals: XX
Etymology [edit]
From Middle English, from Old English twentiġ, from Proto-Germanic *twaintigaz, *twai tigiwiz, an old compound of *twain-/*twai (see two) and *-tigaz/*teguz. Compare West Frisian tweintich, Dutch twintig, German zwanzig, Danish tyve.
Pronunciation [edit]
- (UK) IPA: /ˈtwɛnti/
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- (US) IPA: /ˈtwɛn(t)i/, /ˈtwʌn(t)i/, [ˈtwɛɾ̃i], [ˈtwʌɾ̃i]
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- Rhymes: -ɛnti
Numeral [edit]
twenty
- The cardinal number 20, occurring after nineteen and before twenty-one.
Derived terms [edit]
Related terms [edit]
Translations [edit]
cardinal number
- Afrikaans: twintig (af)
- Ainu: ホッ (hot)
- Albanian: njëzet (sq)
- Alutiiq: suinaq
- Amharic: ሐያ (am) (häya) (numeral: ፪፲)
- Arabic: عشرين (ar) (ʿišrīn), (only nominative, formal) عشرون (ar) (ʿišrūn), (numeral) ٢٠ (ar)
- Egyptian Arabic: عشرين (ʿеšrīn)
- Aramaic:
- Armenian: քսան (hy) (k'san)
- Aromanian: yinghits (rup)
- Aymara: pä tunka (ay)
- Azeri: iyirmi (az)
- Basque: hogei (eu)
- Belarusian: дваццаць (be) (dváccacʹ)
- Bengali: কুড়ি (bn) (kuŗi), বিশ (bn) (bish) (numeral: ২০ (bn))
- Breton: ugent (br)
- Bulgarian: двадесет (bg) (dvadeset), двайсет (bg) (dvájset)
- Burmese: နှစ်ဆယ် (my) (hnăhsè)
- Catalan: vint (ca)
- Central Atlas Tamazight: ⴰⴳⵏⴰⵔ (agnar)
- Chechen: ткъа (tqha)
- Chichewa: makumi awiri
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 二十 (cmn) (èrshí) (numeral: 貳拾 (cmn))
- Teochew: ri6zab8, riab8
- Chinese Characters: 廿
- Chuvash: ҫирӗм (ҫirӗm)
- Crimean Tatar: yigirmi
- Czech: dvacet (cs)
- Dalmatian: venč
- Danish: tyve (da)
- Dena'ina: tut qeluzhun
- Dutch: twintig (nl) f
- Esperanto: dudek (eo)
- Estonian: kakskümmend (et)
- Ewe: blaeve n
- Faroese: tjúgu (fo)
- Fijian: rua saga vulu (fj)
- Finnish: kaksikymmentä (fi)
- French: vingt (fr) m
- Friulian: vinčh
- Galician: vinte (gl)
- Garífuna: wein
- Georgian: ოცი (ka) (oc'i)
- German: zwanzig (de) f
- Gilbertese: houanpoui
- Greek: είκοσι (el) (eíkosi)
- Gujarati: વીસ (gu) (vīsa)
- Haitian Creole: ven
- Hausa: àshìrin (ha)
- Hawaiian: iwakālua
- Hebrew: עסרין (‘esrīn) c
- Syriac: ܥܣܪܝܢ (‘esrīn) c
- Hebrew: עֶשְׂרִים (he) (esrím) m and f
- Hindi: बीस (hi) (bīs), (numeral) २० (hi)
- Hopi: sunat
- Hungarian: húsz (hu)
- Icelandic: tuttugu (is)
- Ido: duadek (io)
- Indonesian: dua puluh (id)
- Interlingua: vinti, viginti
- Irish: fiche (ga)
- Italian: venti (it) m
- Japanese: 二十 (ja) (にじゅう, nijū)
- Jèrriais: vîngt
- Kalaallisut: arvirsaniq-tallimat
- Kannada: ಇಪ್ಪತ್ತು (kn) (ippattu)
- Karachay-Balkar: джыйырма (jıyırma)
- Kazakh: жиырма (kk) (jïırma)
- Khmer: ម្ភៃ (km) (mpʰey), (numeral) ២០
- Kongo: makumole
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- Korean: 이십 (ko) (isip) (二十 (ko)), 스물 (ko) (seumul)
- Kurdish: bîst, بیست
- Kyrgyz: жыйырма (ky) (cıyırma)
- Lao: ຊາວ (lo) (saaw) (numeral) ໒໐ (lo)
- Latin: vīgintī (la)
- Latvian: divdesmit (lv)
- Lithuanian: dvidešimt (lt)
- Livonian: kakškimdõ
- Low German: twintig (nds)
- Macedonian: дваесет (mk) (dváeset)
- Malay: dua puluh (ms)
- Malayalam: ഇരുപത് (ml)
- Maltese: għoxrin (mt)
- Mansi: хус (xus)
- Manx: feed (gv)
- Maori: hokotahi (mi), rua tekau (mi)
- Mongolian: хорь (mn) (hor') (numeral: ᠒᠐)
- Nauruan: anarama (na)
- Navajo: naadiin
- Norwegian: tjue (no), tyve (no)
- Novial: duanti
- Occitan: vint (oc)
- Ojibwe: niishtana
- Old English: twentig (ang)
- Oriya: please add this translation if you can: (numeral: ୨୦)
- Papiamentu: binti
- Persian: بيست (fa) (bist), (numeral) ۲۰ (fa)
- Polish: dwadzieścia (pl)
- Portuguese: vinte (pt)
- Punjabi: ਵੀਹ (wīh) (numeral: ੨੦)
- Quechua: iskay chunka (qu)
- Romanian: douăzeci (ro)
- Romansch: ventg (rm)
- Russian: двадцать (ru) (dvádcatʹ)
- Samoan: luasefulu (sm)
- Sanskrit: विंशति (sa) (vimśatí)
- Sardinian: binti (sc)
- Scottish Gaelic: fichead
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: двадесет (sh)
- Roman: dvadeset (sh)
- Sinhalese: විස්ස (si) (vissa)
- Slovak: dvadsať (sk)
- Slovene: dvajset (sl)
- Somali: labaatan (so)
- Spanish: veinte (es)
- Swahili: ishirini (sw)
- Swedish: tjugo (sv)
- Tagalog: dalawampu (tl)
- Tajik: бист (tg) (bist)
- Tamil: இருபது (ta) (irupatu)
- Tatar: егерме (tt) (yegerme)
- Telugu: ఇరవై (te) (numeral: ౨౦)
- Thai: ยี่สิบ (th) (yêe sìp), (numeral) ๒๐ (th)
- Tibetan: ཉི་ཤུ (bo) (nyi shu), ཉི་ཤུ་ཐམ་པ (bo) (nyi shu tham pa)
- Tocharian A: wiki
- Tocharian B: ikäṃ
- Tongan: uofulu (to)
- Tswana: somamabedi (tn)
- Turkish: yirmi (tr)
- Turkmen: ýiğrimi (tk)
- Ukrainian: двадцять (uk) (dvádcjatʹ)
- Urdu: بیس (ur) (bīs), (numeral) ۲۰ (ur)
- Uyghur: يىگىرمە (ug) (yigirme)
- Uzbek: yigirma (uz)
- Venetian: vinti
- Vietnamese: hai mươi (vi)
- Volapük: teldeg (vo)
- Welsh: ugain (vigesimal, traditional), dau ddeg m (decimal), dwy ddeg f (decimal)
- West Frisian: tweintich
- Yiddish: צוואַנציק (yi) (tsvantsik)
- Zulu: amashumi amabili (zu)
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twenty (plural twenties)
- (colloquial) A banknote with a denomination of 20.
- The waiter’s face lit up when I gave him a twenty.
- (CB slang) 10-20 (location).
- What’s your twenty, good buddy?
- (military) A set of twenty push-ups.
- Drop and give me twenty, Ric! (Recruit.)
Translations [edit]
a banknote with a denomination of 20
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