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 →

2) A twenty is a twenty-dollar or twenty-pound note. tree →

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 →
• 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.