zwölf
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See also: Zwölf
German
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| Cardinal: zwölf Ordinal: zwölfte Sequence adverb: zwölftens Ordinal abbreviation: 12. Adverbial: zwölfmal Adverbial abbreviation: 12-mal Multiplier: zwölffach Multiplier abbreviation: 12-fach Fractional: Zwölftel Polygon: Zwölfeck Polygon abbreviation: 12-Eck Polygonal adjective: zwölfeckig Polygonal adjective abbreviation: 12-eckig | ||
| German Wikipedia article on 12 | ||
Alternative forms
- zwölfe (now colloquial, regional, or nonstandard; chiefly when used without a following noun)
- zwölwe (rare nonstandard spelling of the above)
Etymology
From Middle High German zwölf, zwolf, zwelf, zwelif, from Old High German zwelif, from an original *twelif, from Proto-Germanic *twalif. Compare Hunsrik zwellef, Dutch twaalf, English twelve, Norwegian and Danish tolv.
Pronunciation
Numeral
zwölf
Coordinate terms
German cardinal numbers from 0 to 99
German cardinal numbers from 100 onward
- 100: hundert, einhundert
- 103: tausend, eintausend
- 104: zehntausend (Myriade)
- 106: Million (tausendmaltausend, tausendtausend)
- 109: Milliarde
- 1012: Billion
- 1015: Billiarde
- 1018: Trillion
- 1021: Trilliarde
- 1024: Quadrillion
- 1027: Quadrilliarde
- 1030: Quintillion
- 1033: Quintilliarde
- 1036: Sextillion
- 1039: Sextilliarde
- 1042: Septillion
- 1045: Septilliarde
- 1048: Oktillion
- 1051: Oktilliarde
- 1054: Nonillion
- 1057: Nonilliarde
- 1060: Dezillion
- 1063: Dezilliarde
- 1066: Undezillion
- 1069: Undezilliarde
- 1072: Duodezillion
- 1075: Duodezilliarde
- 1078: Tredezillion
- 1081: Tredezilliarde
- 1084: Quattuordezillion
- 1087: Quattuordezilliarde
…
- 10100: Googol
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- 10120: Vigintillion
- 10123: Vigintilliarde
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Derived terms
Further reading
- “zwölf” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “zwölf” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
- “zwölf” in Duden online
zwölf on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de- Friedrich Kluge (1883) “zwölf”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891
