twenty
part of speech
number (twenty)
meaning for a pupil
1) Twenty is the number 20. It is two tens. tree →
2) A twenty is a twenty-dollar or twenty-pound note. tree →
sense in the lessons
In the Tanakh and 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. In the primary 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
- And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begot Terah. (Torah GEN.11.24, JPS 1917) tree →
- two hundred she-goats and twenty he-goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams, (Torah GEN.32.14, JPS 1917) tree →
- And those that died by the plague were twenty and four thousand. (Torah NUM.25.9, JPS 1917) tree →
- And he judged Israel twenty years. (Prophets JDG.16.31, JPS 1917) tree →
- The children of Harim, three hundred and twenty. (Writings EZR.2.32, JPS 1917) tree →
- The children of Bebai, six hundred twenty and three. (Writings EZR.2.11, JPS 1917) tree →
- She has twenty stickers. tree →
- He paid with a twenty-dollar bill. tree →
- Twenty children are in the class. tree →
- Twenty is four times five. tree →
- We have ten fingers and ten toes, twenty in all. tree →
- The bus comes every twenty minutes. tree →
- My aunt is in her twenties. tree →
- ‘I am fifteen, and she is twenty.’ tree →
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.
- The Maya counted in twenties and had their own sign for zero, a shell, invented separately from India.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «twenty» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.