vingt

See also: vîngt

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɪŋt

Verb

vingt

1. second-person (gij) singular past indicative of vangen

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French

French cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : vingt     Ordinal : vingtième
French Wikipedia article on vingt

Etymology

From Old French vint, from Latin vīgintī, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁wih₁ḱm̥ti < *dwi(h₁)dḱm̥ti. The -g- was added in Middle French but was misplaced to maintain the digraph -in- which indicates the pronunciation.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vɛ̃/

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• (Switzerland, Belgium, Eastern France) IPA^(key): /vɛ̃t/ (see usage note)
• Rhymes: -ɛ̃
• Homophones: vain, vainc, vaincs, vains, vin, vingts, vins, vint, vînt

Numeral

vingt

1. twenty

Noun

vingt m (plural vingt)

1. twenty

Usage notes

The final (t) is pronounced:

• in liaison: vingt enfants (“twenty children”) /vɛ̃.t‿ɑ̃.fɑ̃/
• in the numbers 21 to 29: vingt-deux (“twenty-two”) /vɛ̃t.dø/
• in all contexts, regularly in French-speaking Switzerland, Belgium and in the eastern part of France near the borders of those countries.

Related terms

• vingtaine
• vingt-deux
• vingt dieux
• vingtième

Descendants

• Haitian Creole: ven
• Mauritian Creole: vin
• → Garifuna: wein

Further reading

• “vingt”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Norman

Alternative forms

• vîngt (Jersey)

Etymology

From Old French vint, from Latin vīgintī, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁wih₁ḱm̥ti < *dwi(h₁)dḱm̥ti.

Numeral

vingt

1. (Guernsey) twenty