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Alternative forms[edit]
- Arabic numerals: 20 (see for numerical forms in other scripts)
- Roman numerals: XX
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English twenty, twenti, from Old English twēntiġ (“twenty”, literally “two tens”), from Proto-Germanic *twaintigiwiz, *twai tigiwiz, an old compound of *twain-/*twai (see two) and *-tigaz/*teguz, equivalent to two + -ty, or twain + -ty. Cognate with Scots twenty, tuenty (“twenty”), West Frisian tweintich (“twenty”), Dutch twintig (“twenty”), German zwanzig (“twenty”), Danish tyve.
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Numeral[edit]
twenty
- The cardinal number 20, occurring after nineteen and before twenty-one.
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Translations[edit]
cardinal number
- Afrikaans: twintig
- Ainu: ホッ (hot)
- Albanian: njëzet
- Alutiiq: suinaq
- Amharic: ሐያ (häya) (numeral: ፪፲)
- Arabic: عشرين (ʿišrīn), (only nominative, formal) عشرون (ʿišrūn), (numeral) ٢٠
- Egyptian Arabic: عشرين (ʿеšrīn)
- Aramaic:
- Armenian: քսան (hy) (kʿsan)
- Aromanian: yinghits
- Asturian: venti (ast)
- Aymara: pä tunka
- Azeri: iyirmi (az)
- Bashkir: егерме (yegerme)
- Basque: hogei (eu)
- Belarusian: дваццаць (dváccacʹ)
- Bengali: কুড়ি (kuŗi), বিশ (bish) (numeral: ২০)
- Breton: ugent (br)
- Bulgarian: двадесет (dvadeset), двайсет (dvájset)
- Burmese: နှစ်ဆယ် (hnăhsè)
- Catalan: vint (ca)
- Central Atlas Tamazight: ⴰⴳⵏⴰⵔ (agnar)
- Chechen: ткъа (tq̇a)
- Chichewa: makumi awiri
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 二十 (zh) (èrshí) (numeral: 貳拾)
- Teochew: ri6zab8, riab8
- Chinese Characters: 廿
- Chuvash: ҫирӗм (śirĕm)
- 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
- Fijian: rua saga vulu (fj)
- Finnish: kaksikymmentä (fi)
- French: vingt (fr) m
- Friulian: vincj, vinčh
- Galician: vinte (gl)
- Garífuna: wein
- Georgian: ოცი (oc’i)
- German: zwanzig (de) f
- Gilbertese: houanpoui
- Greek: είκοσι (el) (eíkosi)
- Gujarati: વીસ (vīsa)
- Haitian Creole: ven
- Hausa: àshìrin
- Hawaiian: iwakālua
- Hebrew: עסרין (‘esrīn) c
- Syriac: ܥܣܪܝܢ (‘esrīn) c
- Hebrew: עֶשְׂרִים m, f (esrím)
- Hindi: बीस (hi) (bīs), (numeral) २० (hi)
- 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 (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
- Korean: 이십 (ko) (isip) (二十 (ko)), 스물 (ko) (seumul)
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- Kurdish: bîst (ku), بیست (ku)
- Kyrgyz: жыйырма (ky) (cıyırma)
- Ladin: vint
- Lakota: wikcemna nuŋpa
- Lao: ຊາວ (saaw) (numeral) ໒໐
- Latin: vīgintī
- Latvian: divdesmit (lv)
- Lithuanian: dvidešimt (lt)
- Livonian: kakškimdõ
- Low German: twintig (nds)
- Macedonian: дваесет (dváeset)
- Malay: dua puluh
- Malayalam: ഇരുപത് (ml) (irupat)
- Maltese: għoxrin (mt)
- Mansi: хус (xus)
- Manx: feed
- Maori: hokotahi, rua tekau (mi), rua ngahuru (older term)
- Mongolian: хорь (horʹ) (numeral: ᠒᠐)
- Nauruan: anarama
- Navajo: naadiin
- Norwegian: tjue (no), tyve
- Novial: duanti
- Occitan: vint (oc)
- Ojibwe: niishtana
- Old English: twentig
- Oriya: please add this translation if you can: (numeral: ୨୦)
- Papiamentu: binti
- Persian: بيست (fa) (bist), (numeral) ۲۰
- Polish: dwadzieścia (pl)
- Portuguese: vinte (pt)
- Punjabi: ਵੀਹ (wīh) (numeral: ੨੦)
- Quechua: iskay chunka
- Romanian: douăzeci (ro)
- Romansch: ventg
- Russian: двадцать (ru) (dvádcatʹ)
- Samoan: luasefulu
- Sanskrit: विंशति (vimśatí)
- Sardinian: binti, vinti
- Scottish Gaelic: fichead
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: двадесет
- Roman: dvadeset
- Sicilian: vinti (scn)
- Sinhalese: විස්ස (vissa)
- Slovak: dvadsať
- Slovene: dvajset (sl)
- Somali: labaatan
- 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) (iravai) (numeral: ౨౦)
- Thai: ยี่สิบ (yêe sìp), (numeral) ๒๐
- Tibetan: ཉི་ཤུ (nyi shu), ཉི་ཤུ་ཐམ་པ (nyi shu tham pa)
- Tocharian A: wiki
- Tocharian B: ikäṃ
- Tongan: uofulu
- Tswana: somamabedi
- Turkish: yirmi (tr)
- Turkmen: ýiğrimi
- Ukrainian: двадцять (uk) (dvádcjatʹ)
- Urdu: بیس (bīs), (numeral) ۲۰
- Uyghur: يىگىرمە (yigirme)
- Uzbek: yigirma
- Venetian: vinti
- Vietnamese: hai mươi
- Volapük: teldeg (vo)
- Walloon: vint (wa)
- Welsh: ugain (vigesimal, traditional), dau ddeg m (decimal), dwy ddeg f (decimal)
- West Frisian: tweintich (fy)
- Yiddish: צוואַנציק (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.)
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a banknote with a denomination of 20
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