vingt

See also: vîngt

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vingt

**French numbers ^(edit)**
		200^{[a], [b]}
← 10	← 19	20	21 → ^{[a], [b]}	30 →
		2
Cardinal: vingt Ordinal: vingtième Ordinal abbreviation: 20e, (now nonstandard) 20ème
French Wikipedia article on 20

Inherited from Middle French vingt, from Old French vint, from Latin vīgintī, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁wih₁ḱm̥ti, *dwi(h₁)dḱm̥ti. The Latin -g- was regularly lost in Old French, but was added back to the spelling in Middle French (now placed after the -n- in order to maintain the pronunciation).

IPA^(key): /vɛ̃/, (in liaison) /vɛ̃.t‿/
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- (Quebec) IPA^(key): [vẽɪ̯̃]
IPA^(key): /vɛ̃t/ (see usage note below)
Rhymes: -ɛ̃, -ɛ̃t
Homophones: vain, vainc, vaincs, vains, vin, vingts, vins, vint, vînt

vingt (invariable)

Apart from liaison contexts, the final -t is pronounced in the compound numbers 21 to 29: vingt-cinq /vɛ̃t.sɛ̃k/.
In contrast, the final -t in vingt in 81 to 99 is never pronounced (No liason at all): quatre-vingt-un /ka.tʁə.vɛ̃.œ̃/ not */ka.tʁə.vɛ̃.tœ̃/.
80 is quatre-vingts with -s at the end. Therefore the liason for 80 is /s/ not /t/. But when used in a compound, the form quatre-vingt (without -s) is used, e.g. quatre-vingt-un.
A minority of speakers also pronounce the -t in isolation (il y en a vingt). This is most common in Switzerland, Belgium, and adjacent regions of eastern France. Some of these speakers pronounce the -t even before a consonant (vingt fois).

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