English
Arabic numerals: 20 ( see for numerical forms in other scripts )
Roman numerals: XX
Etymology
From Middle English twenty twenti Lua error in Module:parameters at line 290 : Parameter "sc" should be a valid script code; the value "Latinx" is not valid. See WT:LOS . Proto-Germanic *twaintigiwiz *twai tigiwiz *twain- ( “ two ” ) + *-tigaz ( “ group of ten ” ) , equivalent to two -ty twain -ty Scots twenty tuenty ( “ twenty ” ) , West Frisian tweintich ( “ twenty ” ) , Dutch twintig ( “ twenty ” ) , German zwanzig ( “ twenty ” ) , Danish tyve
Pronunciation
Lua error in Module:parameters at line 290 : Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "RP" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E . IPA (key ) : /ˈtwɛnti/ Lua error in Module:parameters at line 290 : Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "GA" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E . enPR : twĕnʹtē , IPA (key ) : /ˈtwɛnti/ , [ˈtʰʍɛɾ̃i] , /ˈtwɛni/ Lua error in Module:parameters at line 290 : Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "Michigan" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E . enPR : two͝onʹtē , twŭnʹtē , IPA (key ) : /ˈtwʌnti/ , /ˈtwʊnti/ , [ˈtʰʍʌɾ̃i] , [ˈtʰʍʊɾ̃i] Rhymes: -ɛnti -ʌnti
Numeral
twenty
The cardinal number 20 , occurring after nineteen and before twenty-one .
Derived terms
Descendants
Translations
cardinal number
Afrikaans: twintig (af)
Ainu: ホッ ( hot )
Albanian: njëzet (sq)
Alutiiq: suinaq
Amharic: ሐያ ( ḥäya ) , ሃያ ( haya ) (numeral: ፳ )
Arabic: عِشْرِين ( ʕišrīn ) ( informal or oblique cases ) , عِشْرُون ( ʕišrūn ) ( only nominative, formal ) , ٢٠ ( 20 ) ( numeral )
Egyptian Arabic: عشرين ( ʿеšrīn )
Aramaic:
Hebrew: סרין ( ‘esrīn )
Syriac: ܥܣܪܝܢ ( ‘esrīn )
Armenian: քսան (hy) ( kʻsan )
Aromanian: yinghits
Assamese: বিছ ( bis )
Asturian: venti (ast)
Avar: къого ( qxʼogo )
Avestan: 𐬬𐬍𐬯𐬀𐬌𐬙𐬌 ( vīsai )
Aymara: pä tunka
Azerbaijani: iyirmi (az)
Bashkir: егерме ( yegerme )
Basque: hogei (eu)
Belarusian: два́ццаць ( dváccacʹ )
Bengali: কুড়ি ( kuṛi ) , বিশ ( biś ) (numeral: ২০ )
Breton: ugent (br)
Bulgarian: два́десет ( dvádeset ) , два́йсет ( dvájset )
Burmese: နှစ်ဆယ် (my) ( hnachcai ) (numeral: ၂၀ )
Buryat: хорин ( xorin )
Catalan: vint (ca)
Cebuano: kawhaan kaluhaan kaluwaan
Central Atlas Tamazight: ⴰⴳⵏⴰⵔ ( agnar )
Chechen: ткъа ( tqʼa )
Cherokee: ᏔᎵᏍᎪᎯ ( talisgohi )
Chichewa: makumi awiri
Chinese:
Cantonese: 二十 ( ji6 sap6 ) , 廿 ( jaa6 )
Hakka: 二十 ( ngi-sṳ̍p )
Mandarin: 二十 (zh) ( èrshí ) (numeral: 貳拾 ／ 贰拾 廿 (zh) ( niàn )
Teochew: 二十 ( ri6zab8 )
Wu: 廿 ( nè )
Chuukese: rue
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΄ ( numeral )
Ancient: εἴκοσι ( eíkosi ) , κ΄ ( numeral )
Greenlandic: arvirsaniq-tallimat
Gujarati: વીસ ( vīsa )
Haitian Creole: ven
Hausa: àshìrin
Hawaiian: iwakālua
Hebrew: עֶשְׂרִים m or 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) ( jiyrma )
Khakas: чибiрге ( çibirge )
Khmer: ម្ភៃ (km) ( mpʰey ) (numeral: ២០ )
Komi-Permyak: кыкдас ( kykdas )
Kongo: makumole
Korean: 이십 (ko) ( isip ) (二十 (ko) ), 스물 (ko) ( seumul )
Kurdish:
Kurmanji: Lua error in Module:parameters at line 290 : Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "ku" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E .
Sorani: بیست ( bîst )
Kyrgyz: жыйырма (ky) ( jıyırma )
Ladin: vint
Lakota: wikčémna núŋpa
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)
(deprecated template usage ) {{trans-mid }}Malay: dua puluh
Malayalam: ഇരുപത് (ml) ( irupatŭ )
Maltese: għoxrin (mt)
Manchu: ᠣᡵᡳᠨ ( orin )
Mansi: Lua error in Module:parameters at line 290 : Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "mns" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E .
Manx: feed
Maori: hokotahi rua tekau (mi) , rua ngahuru ( older term )
Mongolian: хорь (mn) ( xorʹ ) (numeral: ᠒᠐ ( 20 ) )
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: Lua error in Module:translations at line 72 : Translations must be for attested and approved main-namespace languages.
Occitan: vint (oc)
Ojibwe: niishtana
Old Church Slavonic: дъва дєсѧти ( dŭva desęti )
Old English: twentig
Oriya: କୋଡ଼ିଏ (or) ( koṛie ) (numeral: ୨୦ ( 20 ) )
Ossetian: инсӕй ( insæj )
Papiamentu: binti
Persian: بیست (fa) ( bist ) , ( numeral ) ۲۰
Polish: dwadzieścia (pl) , ( collective ) dwadzieścioro (pl)
Portuguese: vinte (pt)
Punjabi: ਵੀਹ ( vīh ) (numeral: ੨੦ )
Quechua: iskay chunka
Romagnol: vènt
Romani:
Kalo Finnish Romani: biȟ
Romanian: douăzeci (ro)
Romansch: ventg ( Grischun )
Russian: два́дцать (ru) ( dvádcatʹ )
Rusyn: два́дцить ( dvádcytʹ )
Rutul: къад
S'gaw Karen: ခံဆံ ( khee hsee )
Samoan: luasefulu
Sanskrit: विंशति (sa) ( viṃśatí )
Sardinian: binti vinti
Scottish Gaelic: fichead
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: два́десет
Roman: dvádeset
Shan: သၢဝ်း ( sáao )
Sicilian: vinti (scn)
Sinhalese: විස්ස ( wissa )
Skolt Sami: kuâhttlo
Slovak: dvadsať (sk)
Slovene: dvajset (sl)
Somali: labaatan
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: dwaźasća
Upper Sorbian: dwaceći
Southern Altai: јирме ( ǰirme )
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) ( yegerme )
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 )
Tigre: ዕስራ ( ʿəsra )
Tigrinya: ዕስራ ( ʿəsra ) (numeral: ፳ )
Tlingit: tleikháa
Tocharian A: wiki
Tocharian B: ikäṃ
Tofa: иъһён
Tongan: uofulu
Tswana: somamabedi
Turkish: yirmi (tr)
Turkmen: ýigrimi (tk)
Tuvan: чээрби ( çeerbi )
Udmurt: кызь ( kyź )
Ukrainian: два́дцять (uk) ( dvádcjatʹ )
Unami: nishinxke
Urdu: بیس ( bīs ) , ( numeral ) ۲۰ ( 20 )
Uyghur:
UEY: يىگىرمە ( yigirme )
USY: жигирмә ( zhigirme )
Uzbek: yigirma (uz)
Venetian: vinti (vec)
Vietnamese: hai mười
Volapük: teldeg (vo) , tels ( older term, obsolete )
Wakhi: bist
Walloon: vint (wa)
Welsh: ugain (cy) ( vigesimal, traditional ) , dau ddeg (cy) ( decimal )
West Frisian: tweintich (fy)
Wolof: ñaar fukk
Yagnobi: бист ( bist )
Yakut: сүүрбэ ( süürbe )
Yiddish: צוואַנציק ( tsvantsik )
Yup'ik: yuinaq
Zazaki: vîst
Zhuang: ngeih cib
Zulu: amashumi amabili (zu)
Noun
twenty (plural twenties
( colloquial ) 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? ( UK , historical , military ) English division of infantry .
Translations
a banknote with a denomination of 20
Middle English
Numeral
twenty
Alternative form of twenti 