twenty

English

English numbers

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Cardinal : twenty     Ordinal : twentieth     Multiplier : twentyfold

Alternative forms

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

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: twĕnt’ĭ IPA^(key): /ˈtwɛnti/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈtwɛn(t)i/, /ˈtwʌn(t)i/, /ˈtwʊn(t)i/, [ˈtʍɛɾ̃i], [ˈtʍʌɾ̃i], [ˈtʍʊɾ̃i]

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• Rhymes: -ɛnti, -ʌnti

Numeral

twenty

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

Derived terms

Derived terms

• twenties
• twentieth
• twenty past

• twenty to the dozen
• twenty to
• twenty-twenty

Related terms

• twoty
• score

Translations

cardinal number

• Afrikaans: twintig
• Ainu: ホッ (hot)
• Albanian: njëzet (sq)
• Alutiiq: suinaq
• Amharic: ሐያ (ḥäya), ሃያ (haya) (numeral: ፪፲)
• Arabic: عِشْرِينَ‏‎ (ʿišrīna) (informal or oblique cases), عِشْرُونَ‏‎ (ʿišrūna) (only nominative, formal), ٢٠‏‎ (20) (numeral)

  Egyptian Arabic: عشرين‏‎ (ʿеšrīn)

• Aramaic:

  Hebrew: עסרין (‘esrīn) c

  Syriac: ܥܣܪܝܢ (‘esrīn) c

• Armenian: քսան (hy) (kʿsan)
• Aromanian: yinghits
• Asturian: venti (ast)
• Avar: къого (q̇̄ogo)
• Aymara: pä tunka
• Azeri: iyirmi (az)
• Bashkir: егерме (yegerme)
• Basque: hogei (eu)
• Belarusian: два́ццаць (dváccacʹ)
• Bengali: কুড়ি (kuŗi), বিশ (bish) (numeral: ২০)
• Breton: ugent (br)
• Bulgarian: два́десет (dvádeset), два́йсет (dvájset)
• Burmese: နှစ်ဆယ် (hnachcai) (numeral: ၂၀)
• Buryat: хорин (xorin)
• Catalan: vint (ca)
• Central Atlas Tamazight: ⴰⴳⵏⴰⵔ (agnar)
• Chechen: ткъа (tq̇a)
• Chichewa: makumi awiri
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 二十 (ji⁶ sap⁶)

  Hakka: 二十 (ngi-sṳ̍p)

  Mandarin: 二十 (zh) (èrshí) (numeral: 貳拾); 廿 (zh) (niàn)

  Teochew: 二十 (ri6zab8)

  Wu: 廿 (nè)

• Chuvash: ҫирӗм (śirĕm)
• Crimean Tatar: yigirmi
• Czech: dvacet (cs)
• Dalmatian: venč
• Danish: tyve (da)
• Dargwa: гъал (γal)
• Dena'ina: tut qeluzhun
• Dhivehi: ވިހި‏‎ (vihi)
• Dutch: twintig (nl) f
• Esperanto: dudek (eo)
• Estonian: kakskümmend (et)
• Ewe: blaeve n
• Faroese: tjúgu
• Fijian: ruasagavulu (fj)
• Finnish: kaksikymmentä (fi)
• French: vingt (fr) m
• Friulian: vincj, vinčh
• Galician: vinte (gl)
• Garifuna: wein
• Georgian: ოცი (oci)
• German: zwanzig (de) f

  Alemannic German: zwänzg

• Gilbertese: houanpoui
• Greek: είκοσι (el) (eíkosi), κ΄ (k΄) (numeral)
• Greenlandic: arvirsaniq-tallimat
• Gujarati: વીસ (vīsa)
• Haitian Creole: ven
• Hausa: àshìrin
• Hawaiian: iwakālua
• Hebrew: עֶשְׂרִים‏‎ m, f (esrím)
• Hindi: बीस (hi) (bīs), (numeral) २० (hi) (20)
• Hopi: sunat
• Hungarian: húsz (hu)
• Icelandic: tuttugu (is)
• Ido: duadek (io)
• Inari Sami: kyehtlov
• Indonesian: dua puluh

  Sundanese: likur

• Interlingua: vinti, viginti
• Irish: fiche (ga)
• Isan: please add this translation if you can
• Italian: venti (it) m
• Japanese: 二十 (ja) (にじゅう, nijū)
• Kannada: ಇಪ್ಪತ್ತು (kn) (ippattu)
• Karachay-Balkar: джыйырма (jıyırma)
• Kazakh: жиырма (kk) (jïırma)
• Khmer: ម្ភៃ (km) (mpʰey) (numeral: ២០)
• Komi-Permyak: кыкдас (kykdas)
• Kongo: makumole
• Korean: 이십 (ko) (isip) (二十 (ko)), 스물 (ko) (seumul)
• Kurdish:

  Kurmanji: bîst (ku)

  Sorani: بیست‏‎ (bîst)

• Kyrgyz: жыйырма (ky) (cıyırma)
• Ladin: vint
• Lakota: wikcemna nuŋpa
• Lao: ຊາວ (sāo) (numeral: ໒໐)
• Latin: vīgintī
• Latvian: divdesmit (lv)
• Lezgi: къад (q̄ad)
• Lithuanian: dvidešimt (lt)
• Livonian: kakškimdõ
• Low German: twintig (nds)

• Lü: ᦌᦱᧁ (saaw) (numeral: ᧒᧐)
• Macedonian: два́есет (dváeset)
• Malagasy: roapolo (mg)
• Malay: dua puluh
• Malayalam: ഇരുപത് (ml) (irupat)
• Maltese: għoxrin (mt)
• Manchu: ᠣᡵᡳᠨ (orin)
• Mansi: хус (xus)
• Manx: feed
• Maori: hokotahi, rua tekau (mi), rua ngahuru (older term)
• Mongolian: хорь (mn) (horʹ) (numeral: ᠒᠐ (᠒᠐))
• Nauruan: anarama
• Navajo: naadiin
• Ngazidja Comorian: ishirini
• Norman: vîngt
• Northern Sami: guoktelogi
• Northern Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian: tjue (no), tyve
• Novial: duanti
• Occitan: vint (oc)
• Ojibwe: niishtana
• Old Church Slavonic: дъва дєсѧти (dŭva desęti)
• Old English: twentig
• Oriya: କୋଡ଼ିଏ (or) (koṛie) (numeral: ୨୦ (20))
• Papiamentu: binti
• Persian: بيست‏‎ (fa) (bist), (numeral) ۲۰‏‎
• Polish: dwadzieścia (pl), (collective) dwadzieścioro (pl)
• Portuguese: vinte (pt)
• Punjabi: ਵੀਹ (wīh) (numeral: ੨੦)
• Quechua: iskay chunka
• Romagnol: vènt
• Romanian: douăzeci (ro)
• Romansch: (Grischun) ventg
• Russian: два́дцать (ru) (dvádcatʹ)
• Rusyn: два́дцить (dvádcytʹ)
• Rutul: къад
• S'gaw Karen: ခံဆံ (khihsi)
• Samoan: luasefulu
• Sanskrit: विंशति (sa) (vimśatí)
• Sardinian: binti, vinti
• Scottish Gaelic: fichead
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: двадесет

  Roman: dvadeset

• Shan: သၢဝ်း (saaw⁴)
• Sicilian: vinti (scn)
• Sinhalese: විස්ස (vissa)
• Skolt Sami: kuâhttlo
• Slovak: dvadsať
• Slovene: dvajset (sl)
• Somali: labaatan
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: dwaźasća

  Upper Sorbian: dwaceći

• Southern Altai: јирме (ǰïrmä)
• Southern Thai: หยีบ
• Spanish: veinte (es)
• Swahili: ishirini (sw)
• Swedish: tjugo (sv)
• Tagalog: dalawampu (tl)
• Tahitian: piti 'ahuru
• Tai Dam: please add this translation if you can
• Tai Nüa: please add this translation if you can
• Tajik: бист (tg) (bist)
• Tamil: இருபது (ta) (irupatu)
• Tatar: егерме (tt) (egerme)
• Telugu: ఇరవై (te) (iravai) (numeral: ౨౦)
• Thai: ยี่สิบ (th) (yîi-sìp) (numeral: ๒๐)
• Tibetan: ཉི་ཤུ (nyi shu), ཉི་ཤུ་ཐམ་པ (nyi shu tham pa)
• Tlingit: tleikháa
• Tocharian A: wiki
• Tocharian B: ikäṃ
• Tofa: иъһён
• Tongan: uofulu
• Tswana: somamabedi
• Turkish: yirmi (tr)
• Turkmen: ýigrimi (tk)
• Udmurt: кызь (kyzʹ)
• Ukrainian: два́дцять (uk) (dvádcjatʹ)
• Unami: nishinxke
• Urdu: بیس‏‎ (bīs), (numeral) ۲۰‏‎
• Uyghur: يىگىرمە‏‎ (yigirme)
• Uzbek: yigirma (uz)
• Venetian: vinti (vec)
• Vietnamese: hai mười
• Volapük: teldeg (vo), tels (older term, obsolete)
• Walloon: vint (wa)
• Welsh: ugain (vigesimal, traditional), dau ddeg (decimal)
• West Frisian: tweintich (fy)
• Wolof: ñaar fukk
• Yakut: сүүрбэ (süürbe)
• Yiddish: צוואַנציק‏‎ (tsvantsik)
• Yup'ik: yuinaq
• Zhuang: ngeih cib
• Zulu: amashumi amabili (zu)

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

• Czech: dvacka f
• Finnish: kaksikymppinen
• Greek: εικοσάρικο (el) n (eikosáriko), εικοσάρι (el) n (eikosári)
• Hungarian: húszas (hu)
• Macedonian: дваесетка f (dvaesetka)

• Navajo: naadiin béeso
• Russian: двадцатка (ru) f (dvadcatka)
• Swedish: tjuga (sv) c, tjugolapp (sv) c
• Turkish: yirmilik (tr)

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