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douăzeci

twenty /doəˈzetʃʲ/

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Also: 20

Example sentences

Am douăzeci de ani.
I am twenty years old.
Ea are douăzeci de lei în buzunar.
She has twenty lei in her pocket.
Ne vedem la ora douăzeci.
We'll meet at eight in the evening.
Trenul pleacă peste douăzeci de minute.
The train leaves in twenty minutes.
În sală erau aproximativ douăzeci de persoane.
There were about twenty people in the hall.
Compania a angajat douăzeci de ingineri noi în ultimul trimestru.
The company hired twenty new engineers last quarter.

Word family

zeceten
douăzecileatwentieth (ordinal)
zecimea tenth part
treizecithirty
zecimaldecimal

Etymology

Douăzeci is built from două, the Romanian word for two, and zeci, the plural of zece, meaning ten. So it literally reads as two tens. Romanian forms all its tens this way, from treizeci (thirty) up through nouăzeci (ninety), a pattern inherited from Latin's own vigesimal-free decimal counting.

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