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# twenty

«twenty» in Mova's school dictionary: **the number 20** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

number (twenty)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Twenty is the number 20. It is two tens. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/twenty/#m1)

2) A twenty is a twenty-dollar or twenty-pound note. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/twenty/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

Maths: a number of things; twenty dollars as a note (change = 20 − cost); counting in twenties; 20 = 4 × 5. Everyday: ages (in her twenties), «twenty questions» game, twenty-twenty vision (perfect eyesight).

### examples

- She has twenty stickers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/twenty/#x1)
- He paid with a twenty-dollar bill. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/twenty/#x2)
- Twenty children are in the class. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/twenty/#x3)
- Twenty is four times five. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/twenty/#x4)
- We have ten fingers and ten toes, twenty in all. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/twenty/#x5)
- The bus comes every twenty minutes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/twenty/#x6)
- My aunt is in her twenties. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/twenty/#x7)
- ‘I am fifteen, and she is twenty.’ [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/twenty/#x8)

### note

A number written in words; read it as 20. Twenty-one, twenty-two ... with a hyphen. «A twenty-dollar bill» is money paid, so change = 20 − cost. Trap: do not confuse twenty (20) with twelve (12).

### In the corpora

- [quatre-vingts ("katr-VAN") is 80, word for word four twenties.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/8-numbers-70-to-100-soixante-dix-and-quatre-vingts/7/)
- [The Maya counted in twenties and had their own sign for zero, a shell, invented separately from India.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/18-the-maya/12/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «twenty» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/twenty/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.