How to say “twenty” in 38 languages
Every one of these is a word that turns up in ordinary speech, not a dictionary curiosity — the number beside it is where it ranks in that language.
It is commonest in Armenian, where քսան is the 389th most used word.
- Afrikaans twintig #1,356
- Albanian njëzet #1,656
- Arabic عشرون #1,151
- Armenian քսան #389
- Basque hogei #982
- Bengali বিশ #1,123
- Bosnian dvadeset #1,773
- Catalan vint #2,419
- Chinese 二十 twenty; 20 #1,539
- Croatian dvadeset #1,845
- Czech dvacet #1,401
- Danish tyve #2,054
- Dutch twintig #1,618
- Esperanto dudek #858
- Estonian kakskümmend #1,798
- Galician vinte twenty; 20 #825
- Greek είκοσι twenty, 20 #1,739
- Hebrew עשרים #950
- Hindi बीस #1,981
- Hungarian húsz #2,113
- Icelandic tuttugu #819
- Italian venti #2,017
- Latvian divdesmit #1,500
- Lithuanian dvidešimt #851
- Macedonian дваесет #1,966
- Malayalam ഇരുപത് #748
- Persian بیست #1,675
- Portuguese vinte #1,743
- Russian двадцать #1,893
- Serbian dvadeset #1,548
- Slovak dvadsať #1,202
- Slovenian dvajset #853
- Spanish veinte #2,384
- Swedish tjugo #2,248
- Tamil இருபது #1,121
- Turkish yirmi #1,407
- Ukrainian двадцять #1,212
- Urdu بیس #532
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.