🇬🇧🇨🇳 twenty - 二十 : English Lesson

Meaning of "twenty" ("二十"), detailed definition, and a short video lesson below.

Twenty is the number that is one more than nineteen and one less than twenty-one. If you count from 1 all the way up, twenty is what you say after 19. You can use it to tell how many things there are, how old someone is, or to talk about groups of 20 things.

Watch and listen to this English flashcard to understand the word in more detail, with an easy example sentence.

I spent twenty minutes tying my shoes and four seconds tripping over them anyway.

Mom said I had twenty minutes to clean my room, so I spent nineteen thinking about it and one minute hiding everything under the bed.

My alarm rang twenty times before I got up, and by then even the pillow was yelling, “Wake up already!”

The ice cream truck drove by twenty houses before mine, clearly just to build dramatic suspense.

I tried to juggle twenty grapes and invented a new sport called “floor salad.”

Tom blows candles on his cake. There are twenty candles. He counts: one... nineteen, twenty. He makes one wish and blows all twenty candles. His friends clap twenty times and sing. Tom smiles, happy. Now he knows he is twenty. Everyone eats cake and laughs, and the room is full of light.

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This word is at the A1 level, which means it is one of the first words you learn when starting English. It’s commonly used in everyday conversations and helps you communicate basic ideas like greetings, family, or daily activities.

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