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English
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- ( “ two ” ) + *-tigaz ( “ group of ten ” ) , 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
( Received Pronunciation ) IPA (key ) : /ˈtwɛnti/ ,
( General American ) enPR : twĕnʹtē , IPA (key ) : /ˈtwɛnti/ , , /ˈtwɛni/ ,
( parts of the US and Canada ) IPA (key ) : /ˈtwʌn(t)i/ , /ˈtwʊn(t)i/
( Philippines , nonstandard , colloquial ) IPA (key ) : /ˈtweɪnti/
( South India , colloquial ) IPA (key ) : /ʈoɳˈʈiː/
Rhymes: -ɛnti , -ʌnti
Numeral
twenty
The cardinal number 20 , occurring after nineteen and before twenty-one .
Synonym: onescore ( rare )
Derived terms
Descendants
Translations
cardinal number
Afrikaans: twintig (af)
Ahom: 𑜏𑜧 ( saw )
Ainu: ホッ ( hot )
Aiton: ꩬွ် ( saw )
Albanian: njëzet (sq)
Alutiiq: suinaq
Amharic: ሐያ ( ḥäya ) , ሃያ ( haya ) (numeral: ፳ )
Arabic: عِشْرُونَ ( ʕišrūna )
Egyptian Arabic: عشرين ( ʕešrīn )
Aramaic:
Hebrew: סרין ( ‘esrīn )
Syriac: ܥܣܪܝܢ ( ‘esrīn )
Archi: къа ( qʼa )
Armenian: քսան (hy) ( kʻsan )
Aromanian: yinghits
Assamese: বিছ ( bis )
Asturian: venti (ast)
Avar: къого ( qxʼogo )
Avestan: 𐬬𐬍𐬯𐬀𐬌𐬙𐬌 ( vīsai ti )
Aymara: pä tunka
Azerbaijani: iyirmi (az)
Bashkir: егерме ( yegerme )
Basque: hogei (eu)
Belarusian: два́ццаць (be) ( dváccacʹ )
Bengali: বিশ (bn) ( biś ) , কুড়ি (bn) ( kuṛi ) (numeral: ২০ )
Bikol Central: duwampulo
Bookan: duo ngoopod
Breton: ugent (br)
Brunei Malay: dua puluh
Bulgarian: два́десет ( dvádeset ) , два́йсет ( dvájset )
Burmese: နှစ်ဆယ် (my) ( hnachcai ) (numeral: ၂၀ )
Buryat: хорин ( xorin )
Carpathian Rusyn: два́дцять ( dvádcjatʹ )
Catalan: vint (ca)
Cebuano: kawhaan , kaluhaan , kaluwaan
Central Atlas Tamazight: ⴰⴳⵏⴰⵔ ( agnar )
Chechen: ткъа ( tqʼa )
Cherokee: ᏔᎵᏍᎪᎯ ( talisgohi )
Chichewa: makumi awiri
Chickasaw: pokoli toklo
Chinese:
Cantonese: 二十 ( ji6 sap6 ) , 廿 ( jaa6 )
Hakka: 二十 ( ngi-sṳ̍p )
Hokkien: 二十 ( jī-cha̍p )
Mandarin: 二十 (zh) ( èrshí ) (numeral: 貳拾 / 贰拾 ); 廿 (zh) ( niàn ) , ( obsolete ) 念 (zh) ( niàn )
Teochew: 二十 ( ri6 zab8 )
Wu: 廿 ( 6 gnie)
Chuukese: rue
Chuvash: ҫирӗм ( śirĕm )
Classical Nahuatl: cempōhualli
Cornish: ugens
Crimean Tatar: yigirmi
Czech: dvacet (cs)
Dalmatian: venč
Danish: tyve (da)
Dargwa: гъал ( ɣal )
Dena'ina: tut qeluzhun
Dhivehi: ވިހި ( vihi )
Dutch: twintig (nl) f
Dzongkha: ཉི་ཤུ ( nyi shu )
Esperanto: dudek (eo)
Estonian: kakskümmend (et)
Ewe: blaeve n
Farefare: pisyi
Faroese: tjúgu
Fiji Hindi: biis (hif)
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
Gothic: 𐍄𐍅𐌰𐌹 𐍄𐌹𐌲𐌾𐌿𐍃 ( twai tigjus )
Greek: είκοσι (el) ( eíkosi ) , κ΄ ( numeral )
Ancient: εἴκοσι ( eíkosi ) , κ΄ ( numeral )
Greenlandic: marlunnik qulillit (kl) , inuk naallugu
Gujarati: વીસ ( vīs )
Haitian Creole: ven
Hausa: àshìrin
Hawaiian: iwakālua
Hawaiian Creole: twenty
Hebrew: עֶשְׂרִים (he) m or f ( esrím )
Hindi: बीस (hi) ( bīs ) , ( numeral ) २० (hi) ( 20 ) , वीह (hi) ( vīh ) , बीह (hi) ( bīh ) , कोड़ी (hi) ( koṛī )
Hopi: sunat
Hungarian: húsz (hu)
Icelandic: tuttugu (is)
Ido: duadek (io)
Ifè: ogú
Igala: ógwú
Inari Sami: kyehtlov
Indonesian: dua puluh (id)
Ingrian: kakskymment
Ingush: ткъо ( tqʼo )
Interlingua: vinti , viginti
Irish: fiche (ga)
Isan: ซาว
Italian: venti (it) m
Itsekiri: ogun
Japanese: 二十 (ja) ( にじゅう, nijū ) , 二十 (ja) ( はた, hata ) , 二十 (ja) ( ふたそ, futaso )
Jeju: 스물 ( seumul ) , 스무 ( seumu ) ( determiner ) , 이십 ( isip )
Kalasha: bíši
Kalmyk: хөрн ( xörn )
Kannada: ಇಪ್ಪತ್ತು (kn) ( ippattu )
Karachay-Balkar: джыйырма ( cıyırma )
Kazakh: жиырма (kk) ( jiyrma )
Khakas: чибiрге ( çibirge )
Khiamniungan Naga: khèi
Khinalug: кьан ( q̇an )
Khmer: ម្ភៃ (km) ( mpʰey ) (numeral: ២០ (km) ( 20 ) )
Khowar: بیشیر ( bíšir )
Komi-Permyak: кыкдас ( kykdas )
Kongo: makumole
Korean: 이십(二十) (ko) ( isip ) , 스물 (ko) ( seumul )
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: بیست ( bîst )
Northern Kurdish: bîst (ku)
Kyrgyz: жыйырма (ky) ( jıyırma )
Ladin: vint
Ladino:
Hebrew: ב׳ינטי
Roman: vente
Lak: кьува ( qʼuwa )
Lakota: wikčémna núŋpa
Lao: ຊາວ ( sāo ) (numeral: ໒໐ )
Latin: vīgintī (la) , viginti (la) m
Latvian: divdesmit (lv)
Lezgi: къад ( q̄ad )
Lithuanian: dvidešimt (lt)
Livonian: kakškimdõ
Louisiana Creole French: vin
Low German: twintig (nds)
Lü: ᦌᦱᧁ ( saaw ) (numeral: ᧒᧐ )
Macedonian: два́есет ( dváeset )
Malagasy: roapolo (mg)
Malay: dua puluh (ms) , likur (ms) ( rare )
Malayalam: ഇരുപത് (ml) ( irupatŭ )
Maltese: għoxrin (mt)
Manchu: ᠣᡵᡳᠨ ( orin )
Manx: feed
Maori: hokotahi , rua ngahuru , rua tekau (mi) ; tekau (mi) , ( archaic )
Mon: ၜါစှော်
Mongolian: хорь (mn) ( xorʹ ) (numeral: ᠒᠐ ( 20 ) )
Nauruan: anarama
Navajo: naadiin
Ngazidja Comorian: ishirini
Nheengatu: irundí-pú
Norman: vîngt
Northern Mansi: (please verify ) хус ( hus )
Northern Sami: guoktelogi
Northern Thai: ᨪᩣ᩠ᩅ
Norwegian: tjue (no) , tyve
Occitan: vint (oc)
Odia: କୋଡ଼ିଏ (or) ( koṛie ) (numeral: ୨୦ ( 20 ) )
Ojibwe: niishtana
Old Church Slavonic: дъва дєсѧти ( dŭva desęti ) (numeral: к҃ )
Old English: twentiġ
Old French: vint
Old Spanish: veynte
Old Tupi: xepoxepy
Olukumi: ọgbọ
Orok: хори ( hori )
Oromo: digdama
Ossetian: ссӕдз ( ssæʒ )
Papiamentu: binti
Pennsylvania German: zwansich
Persian: بیست (fa) ( bist ) , ( numeral ) ۲۰
Phake: ꩬွ် ( saw )
Polish: dwadzieścia (pl) , ( collective ) dwadzieścioro (pl)
Portuguese: vinte (pt)
Punjabi: ਵੀਹ ( vīh ) (numeral: ੨੦ )
Quechua: iskay chunka
Romagnol: vènt
Romani: biś
Kalo Finnish Romani: biȟ
Romanian: douăzeci (ro)
Romansch: ventg ( Grischun )
Russian: два́дцать (ru) ( dvádcatʹ )
Rutul: къад ( q:ad )
S'gaw Karen: ခံဆံ ( khee hsee )
Saek: ซ๊าว
Sami:
Southern Sami: göökteluhkie
Samoan: luasefulu
Sanskrit: विंशति (sa) ( viṃśatí )
Santali: ᱤᱥᱤ ( isi ) , ᱵᱟᱨ ᱜᱮᱞ ( bar gel )
Sardinian: binti , vinti
Scots: twinty
Scottish Gaelic: fichead
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: два́десет
Roman: dvádeset
Shan: သၢဝ်း (shn) ( 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 , หยีซิบ
Spanish: veinte (es)
Sundanese: likur
Swahili: ishirini (sw)
Swedish: tjugo (sv)
Sylheti: ꠛꠤꠡ ( biś )
Tabasaran: къаб ( q̄ab )
Tagalog: dalawampu (tl) , beynte , bente ( colloquial )
Tahitian: piti 'ahuru
Tai Dam: please add this translation if you can
Tai Laing: ꩬၢဝ်း
Tai Nüa: ᥔᥣᥝᥰ ( säaw )
Tajik: бист (tg) ( bist )
Talysh: vist
Tamil: இருபது (ta) ( irupatu )
Tat: bist
Tatar: егерме (tt) ( yegerme )
Telugu: ఇరవై (te) ( iravai ) (numeral: ౨౦ )
Tetum: ruanulu
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
Tok Pisin: twenti , tupela ten
Tongan: uofulu
Tswana: somamabedi
Turkish: yirmi (tr)
Turkmen: ýigrimi (tk)
Tuvan: чээрби ( çeerbi )
Udi: къа ( q̇a )
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)
Venetan: vinti (vec)
Vietnamese: hai mươi (vi)
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 )
Yoruba: ogún
Yucatec Maya: junkʼáal
Yup'ik: yuinaq
Zazaki: vist (diq)
Zhuang: ngeih cib
Zulu: amashumi amabili (zu)
Noun
twenty (plural twenties )
( in the plural ) The numbers twenty (20) to twenty-nine (29 ).
She looks like she's in her early twenties , perhaps 21 or 22 years old?
( colloquial ) A banknote with a denomination of 20.
The waiter’s face lit up when I gave him a twenty .
2020 September 1, Tom Lamont, “The butcher's shop that lasted 300 years (give or take)”, in The Guardian :The more a shop looks as though it trades in farthings and ha’pennies, the more tenners and twenties you can expect to hand over at the till.
( CB slang ) 10-20 (location ).
What’s your twenty, good buddy?
( UK , historical , military ) An old English division of infantry .
Translations
a banknote with a denomination of 20
Hawaiian Creole
Etymology
Derived from English twenty .
Numeral
twenty
twenty ( the cardinal number 20 , occurring after nineteen and before twenty-one )
2000 , “Jesus Guys 1”, in Joseph Grimes, transl., Da Jesus Book: Hawaii Pidgin New Testament , Wycliffe Bible Translators, →ISBN , page 312 :Dat time had like hundred twenty peopo dat trus Jesus. Dey wen come togedda, an Peter wen stand up fo talk. And in those days Peter rose up amongst the brothers, (a crowd of people about one hundred and twenty in number) and declared…
Middle English
thewenti , thwenti , tuenti , tuentie , tweinti , twenti , twentig , twentie , twenntiȝ , twentti , twinti , twonti , twontie
Etymology
From Old English twēntiġ , from Proto-Germanic *twai tigiwiz ; equivalent to twei + -ty .
Numeral
twenty
twenty ( the cardinal number 20 , occurring after nineteen and before twenty-one )
c. 1400 , Geoffrey Chaucer , The Canterbury Tales , General Prologue, lines 23–24 :At nyght was come into that hostelrye Wel nyne and twenty in a compaignye There came at nightfall to that hostelry Some nine and twenty in a company
Descendants
References
Scots
Numeral
twenty
alternative form of twinty