vingt

Meaning

twenty

Pronounced as (IPA)

/vɛ̃/

Etymology

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).

Sentences

Vingt et un livres .

Twenty-one books.

Vingt et un petits chiens .

Twenty-one small dogs.

Plus de vingt ans après le premier jugement des terres étaient encore restituées .

More than twenty years after the first judgment the land was still returned.

Vingt ans plus tard , on lui attribuait les privilèges d'un canton .

Twenty years later, it was granted the privileges of a canton.