Question 1 · Quick check
twenty
CEFRA1
/ˈtwɛnti/
number · numeral · noun
Türkçe translations
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In plain English
- 01
number
The number 20.
- 02
number
Extra detailA banknote with a denomination of 20.
Examples
I'd been waiting for twenty minutes and I was getting impatient.
It was twenty years ago as I look back on it.
At a glance
Sits at A1 on the CEFR scale
- Senses
- 5
- Parts of speech
- 3
- Citations
- 3
Also pronounced
- /-ti/
- /-tɪ/
Deep Dive
number
Extra meaningThe numbers twenty (20) to twenty-nine (29).
numeral
Extra meaningThe cardinal number 20, occurring after nineteen and before twenty-one.
noun
Extra meaning10-20 (location).
More examples
In contextWhere is your twenty? I'll give you five bucks for it.
She looks like she's in her early twenties, perhaps 21 or 22 years old?
The waiter’s face lit up when I gave him a twenty.
Quick test
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Origin
number
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.