See also: vîngt

DutchEdit

PronunciationEdit

VerbEdit

vingt

  1. second-person (gij) singular past indicative of vangen

FrenchEdit

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

EtymologyEdit

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).

PronunciationEdit

NumeralEdit

vingt (invariable)

  1. twenty

Usage notesEdit

  • Apart from liaison contexts, the final -t is pronounced in the compound numbers 21 to 29: vingt-cinq /vɛ̃t.sɛ̃k/.
  • A minority of speakers also pronounce the -t in isolation (il y en a vingt). This is commonest in Switzerland, Belgium, and adjacent regions of eastern France. Some of these speakers pronounce the -t even before a consonant (vingt fois).

Related termsEdit

DescendantsEdit

  • Haitian Creole: ven
  • Mauritian Creole: vin
  • Garifuna: wein

Further readingEdit

NormanEdit

Alternative formsEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Old French vint, from Latin vīgintī, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁wih₁ḱm̥ti < *dwi(h₁)dḱm̥ti.

NumeralEdit

vingt

  1. (Guernsey) twenty