twentieth
part of speech
number, adjective, noun (twentieth, twentieths)
meaning for a pupil
1) Twentieth comes after nineteenth in order: number 20. tree →
2) A twentieth is one of twenty equal parts of a whole, written 1/20. tree →
3) The twentieth century was a hundred years of history, the time of the first cars, planes and computers. tree →
sense in the lessons
In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: Used for dates, such as the twentieth day of the month, when the cloud lifted and Israel began to travel. Interpretation: Tradition counts months and days carefully because Israel's festivals depend on exact dates. In the primary lessons: Maths: an order position or a fraction: one twentieth = 1/20 = 0.05 = 5%; as a fraction divide by 20; as an order word there are 19 before it. History: the twentieth century, with cars, planes and computers.
examples
- And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dry. (Torah GEN.8.14, JPS 1917) tree →
- In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at even, ye shall eat unleavened bread, until the one and twentieth day of the month at even. (Torah EXO.12.18, JPS 1917) tree →
- And it came to pass in the second year, in the second month, on the twentieth day of the month, that the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle of the testimony. (Torah NUM.10.11, JPS 1917) tree →
- the nineteenth to Pethahiah, the twentieth to Jehezkel; (Writings 1CH.24.16, JPS 1917) tree →
- For the twentieth to Eliathah, his sons and his brethren, twelve; (Writings 1CH.25.27, JPS 1917) tree →
- the one and twentieth to Jachin, the two and twentieth to Gamul; (Writings 1CH.24.17, JPS 1917) tree →
- She was the twentieth person in line. tree →
- One twentieth of 100 is 5. tree →
- On his twentieth birthday he got a car. tree →
- The twentieth floor is the top. tree →
- One twentieth is the same as five percent. tree →
- Planes were invented in the twentieth century. tree →
- “Tink can’t go a twentieth part of the way round,” she reminded him a little tartly. tree →
note
Written 20th. As a fraction divide by 20. As an order word it gives a position: there are 19 before it. Trap: the twentieth century is the hundred years whose numbers begin with 19, not 20.
In the corpora
- And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dry.
- And in the twentieth year of Jeroboam king of Israel began Asa to reign over Judah.
- in the four and twentieth day of the month, in the sixth month, in the second year of Darius the king.
- And the word of the LORD came the second time unto Haggai in the four and twentieth day of the month, saying:
- Now it came to pass in the month Chislev, in the twentieth year, as I was in Shushan the castle,
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «twentieth» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.