zwo
See also: ȝwo
German edit
Etymology edit
From Old High German zwō, from Proto-Germanic *twaōz, *twōz (see *twai), from Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁. Zwo was originally feminine (see zween), but is now used as a variant of zwei without gender distinction. Compare, however, Luxembourgish zwou, which is still a feminine form of zwéin. The same is true of some German dialects, e.g. in Switzerland. More at two.
Pronunciation edit
Numeral edit
zwo
- (cardinal number) two
- Synonym: zwei
Usage notes edit
- Zwei is the usual German word for "two", but zwo is sometimes used as more clearly distinguishable from drei (“three”), especially over the telephone and in military parlance. Outside of these contexts, it is used chiefly in southern Germany and Austria.
Coordinate terms edit
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
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- 10100: Googol
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- 10120: Vigintillion
- 10123: Vigintilliarde
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Numeral edit
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