twenty

English

Alternative forms

English cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : twenty     Ordinal : twentieth

• Arabic numerals: 20 (see for numerical forms in other scripts)
• Roman numerals: XX

Etymology

From Old English twentiġ, from Germanic *twaintigaz, an old compound of *twain- (see two) and *-tigaz

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA: /ˈtwɛn.ti/

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• (US) IPA: /ˈtwɛ̃.ɾi/, /ˈtwʌ̃.ɾi/

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• Rhymes: -ɛnti

Numeral

twenty

1. The cardinal number 20, occurring after nineteen and before twenty-one.

Derived terms

• twenties
• twentieth
• twenty past
• twenty to
• twenty to the dozen
• twenty-twenty

Related terms

• twoty

Translations

cardinal number

Alutiiq: suinaq Amharic: ሐያ (am) (häya) (numeral: ፪፲) Arabic: عشرين (‘išrīn), عشرون (‘išrūn) (numeral: ٢٠) Egyptian Arabic: عشرين (ʕeʃrīn) Aramaic: Syriac: ܥܣܪܝܢ (‘esrīn) c. Armenian: քսան (hy) (k'san) Azeri: iyirmi (az) Basque: hogei (eu) Bengali: কুড়ি (bn), বিশ (bn) (numeral: ২০) Bosnian: dvadeset (bs) Breton: ugent (br) Bulgarian: двадесет (bg) (dvadeset) Burmese: နှစ်ဆယ် (my) (hnăhsè) Catalan: vint (ca) Chechen: ткъа (tqha) Chinese: Mandarin: 二十 (cmn) (èrshí) (numeral: 貳拾 (cmn)) Teochew: ri6zab8, riab8 Chinese Characters: 廿 Crimean Tatar: yigirmi Croatian: dvádeset (hr) Czech: dvacet (cs) Danish: tyve (da) Dena'ina: tut qeluzhun Dutch: twintig (nl) f. Esperanto: dudek (eo) Estonian: kakskümmend (et) Ewe: blaeve n. Finnish: kaksikymmentä (fi) French: vingt (fr) m. Galician: vinte (gl) Garífuna: wein Georgian: ოცი (ka) (oc'i) German: zwanzig (de) f. Greek: είκοσι (el) (eíkosi) Gujarati: please add this translation if you can: (numeral: ૨૦) Haitian Creole: ven Hebrew: עסרין (‘esrīn) c. Hebrew: עֶשְׂרִים (esrím) m. and f. Hindi: बीस (hi) (bīs) Hopi: sunat Hungarian: húsz (hu) Icelandic: tuttugu (is) Ido: duadek (io) Indonesian: dua puluh Interlingua: vinti, viginti Irish: fiche (ga) Italian: venti (it) m. Japanese: 二十 (にじゅう, ni-jū) Kalaallisut: arvirsaniq-tallimat Kannada: please add this translation if you can: (numeral: ೨೦)

Karachay-Balkar: джыйырма (jıyırma) Khmer: ម្ភៃ (mpʰey) (numeral: ២០) Korean: 스물 (seumul),이십 (isip) Kurdish: bîst, بیست Lao: ຊາວ (lo) (saaw) (numeral: ໒໐) Latin: vīgintī (la) Latvian: divdesmit Livonian: kakškimdõ Macedonian: дваесет (mk) (dváeset) Malayalam: ഇരുപത് (ml) Maltese: għoxrin (mt) Manx: feed Mongolian: хорь (mn) (hor') (numeral: ᠒᠐) Navajo: naadiin Norwegian: tjue (no) Novial: duanti Ojibwe: niishtana Old English: twentig (ang) Oriya: please add this translation if you can: (numeral: ୨୦) Persian: بيست (bist) (numeral: ۲۰) Polish: dwadzieścia (pl) Portuguese: vinte (pt) Punjabi: ਵੀਹ (wīh) (numeral: ੨੦) Romanian: douăzeci (ro) Russian: двадцать (ru) (dvádtsat’) Sanskrit: विंशति (sa) (vimśatí) Scottish Gaelic: fichead Serbian: Cyrillic: двадесет (sr) Roman: dvadeset Sinhala: විස්ස (vissa) Slovak: dvajset (sk) Slovene: dvajset (sl) Spanish: veinte (es) Swahili: ishirini (sw) Swedish: tjugo (sv) Tagalog: dalawampu (tl) Tamil: please add this translation if you can: (numeral: ௨௰) Tatar: егерме (tt), yegerme (tt) Telugu: ఇరవై (te) (numeral: ౨౦) Thai: ยี่สิบ (yèè sip) (numeral: ๒๐) Tibetan: please add this translation if you can: (numeral: ༢༠) Turkish: yirmi (tr) Ukrainian: двадцять (uk) (dvádcjat') Urdu: بیس (ur) (bees) Venetian: vinti Vietnamese: hai mươi (vi) Volapük: teldeg (vo) Welsh: ugain (vigesimal, traditional), dau ddeg m (decimal), dwy ddeg f (decimal) West Frisian: tweintich

Noun

twenty (plural twenties)

1. (colloquial) A banknote with a denomination of 20.

   The waiter’s face lit up when I gave him a twenty.

2. (CB slang) 10-20 (location).

   What’s your twenty, good buddy?

3. (military) A set of twenty push-ups.

   Drop and give me twenty, Ric! (Recruit.)

Translations

a banknote with a denomination of 20

Finnish: kaksikymppinen (fi) Hungarian: húszas (hu)

Turkish: yirmilik (tr)

CB slang - location

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