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# twenty

number (twenty)

«twenty» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Twenty is the number 20. It is two tens. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/twenty/#m1)
2. A twenty is a twenty-dollar or twenty-pound note. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/twenty/#m2)

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

Twenty is often the age of adult men counted for the army or the census, and it appears in ages and gifts.

**Interpretation.** Tradition sees twenty as the age of responsibility for being counted and for the half-shekel given for each person.

### Examples

- And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begot Terah. (Torah GEN.11.24, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/T/twenty/#x1)
- two hundred she-goats and twenty he-goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams, (Torah GEN.32.14, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/T/twenty/#x2)
- And those that died by the plague were twenty and four thousand. (Torah NUM.25.9, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/T/twenty/#x3)
- And he judged Israel twenty years. (Prophets JDG.16.31, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/T/twenty/#x4)
- The children of Harim, three hundred and twenty. (Writings EZR.2.32, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/T/twenty/#x5)
- The children of Bebai, six hundred twenty and three. (Writings EZR.2.11, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/T/twenty/#x6)

### 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).

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «twenty» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/twenty/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«twenty» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/twenty.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «twenty» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/T/twenty/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«twenty» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/twenty.html) on Mova free.