🇬🇧 Twenty-one meaning: English Vocabulary Flash Card

Twenty-one is the number you get when you add one more to twenty; if you count from one all the way up, twenty-one comes right after twenty and right before twenty-two.

I told my baby brother to count to twenty-one, and he said, “One, two, many, snack time.”

I practiced my evil laugh twenty-one times, and now the cat sleeps with one eye open.

I told my sister I was “twenty-one percent sure” she stole my fries, which is a scientific way of saying I am totally sure.

I tried to do twenty-one jumping jacks, but my socks flew off at number nine and I forgot what I was doing.

Grandpa said he’d tell me a secret in twenty-one minutes, but I aged twenty-one years waiting.

Anna puts twenty-one candles on a cake. Her friend counts, "One, two, ... twenty, twenty-one." She lights the twenty-one candles. Her brother adds a small candle and smiles, "Now it is twenty-one." The girl blows. Friends clap. Anna smiles. She feels warm to be twenty-one.

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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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