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Contents 1 English 1.1 Pronunciation 1.2 Etymology 1.3 Cardinal number 1.4 Adjective 1.4.1 Translations 1.5 See also

[ English

Rank of this word in thee English language, from analyzing texts from Project Gutenberg.
consider	provided	Rome	#970: twelve	opposite	vast	isn't

[ Pronunciation

• (RP) IPA: /twelv/
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[ Etymology

Old English twelf from Germanic *twalif-, an old compound of *twa- (see two) and *-lif (meaning left over; see leave) < Proto-Indo-European *leikw- (leave, remain).

[ Cardinal number

twelve

1. The cardinal number occurring after eleven and before thirteen, represented in Roman numerals as XII and in Arabic numerals as 12. Ordinal: twelfth.
   • Symbolic: 12
   • Roman: XII
     • Last: 11
     • Next: 13

[ Adjective

twelve

1. Describing a set or group with twelve components. There are twelve months in a year.

[ Translations

number

Afrikaans: twaalf Albanian: dymbëdhjetë Amharic: please add this translation if you can: (numeral: ፲፪) Arabic: اثنى عشر (’íθna ʕášar) (numeral: ١٢) Aramaic: Syriac: ܬܪܥܣܪ (tre‘sar) m., ܬܪܬܥܣܪܐ (tarta‘esrē) f. Hebrew: תרעסר (tre‘sar) m., תרתעסרא (tarta‘esrē) f. Basque: hamabi Bengali: please add this translation if you can: (numeral: ১২) Bosnian: dvanaest Breton: daouzek Bulgarian: дванадесет (dvanádeset) Burmese: please add this translation if you can: (numeral: ၁၂) Catalan: dotze Chinese: 十二 (shíèr) (numeral: 拾貳) Czech: dvanáct cs(cs) Danish: tolv da(da) Dena'ina: nutiha beq'di Dutch: twaalf nl(nl) Esperanto: dekdu Estonian: kaksteist et(et) Finnish: kaksitoista fi(fi) French: douze fr(fr) West Frisian: tolf, tolve Garífuna: dûsu German: zwölf de(de) Greek: δώδεκα el(el) (dódeka) Gujarati: બાર (numeral: ૧૨) Hebrew: שְׁתֵּים־עֶשְׂרֵה (shteim esre) f. (used in counting), שְׁנֵים־עָשָׂר (shneim asar) m. Hindi: बारह (bārah) (numeral: १२) Hungarian: tizenkettő hu(hu) Indonesian: dua belas Interlingua: dece-duo, duodece Irish: dó dhéag ga(ga) Italian: dodici it(it) Japanese: 十二 (じゅうに, jūni) Kalaallisut: aqqaniq-marluk

Kannada: please add this translation if you can: (numeral: ೧೨) Khmer: ដប់ពីរ (dop pī) (numeral: ១២) Korean: 열둘 (yeoldul) Kurdish: Kurmanji: dazde ku(ku), diwazde Sorani: دوانزه‌, دوازده‌ Lao: please add this translation if you can: (numeral: ໑໒) Latin: duodecem la(la) Latvian: divpadsmit Livonian: kakštuoistõn Malayalam: please add this translation if you can: (numeral: ൧൨) Maltese: tnax Manchu: (juwan juwe) Manx: daa yeig Mongolian: please add this translation if you can: (numeral: ᠑᠒) Norwegian: tolv no(no) Novial: dek-du Oriya: please add this translation if you can: (numeral: ୧୨) Persian: please add this translation if you can: (numeral: ۱۲) Polish: dwanaście pl(pl) Portuguese: doze pt(pt) Punjabi: please add this translation if you can: (numeral: ੧੨) Romanian: doisprezece m., doişpe (m, informal), douăsprezece f. & n., douăşpe (f & n, informal) Russian: двенадцать (dvenádtsat’) Sanskrit: dvaadashan Serbian: дванаест, dvanaest Sinhala: දොළහ (dholaha) Slovak: dvanásť Slovene: dvanajst sl(sl) Spanish: doce es(es) Swedish: tolv sv(sv) Tagalog: labindalawa Tamil: please add this translation if you can: (numeral: ௰௨) Telugu: పన్నెండు (numeral: ౧౨) Thai: please add this translation if you can: (numeral: ๑๒) Tibetan: please add this translation if you can: (numeral: ༡༢) Welsh: deuddeg (vigesimal, traditional), un deg dau (decimal)

[ See also

• dozen