German number · CEFR A1
zwanzig
Meaning in English: twenty
Not one of the 5,000 most common words in written German, but part of the core vocabulary in our Numbers in German list.
Example
Ich warte schon seit zwanzig Minuten.
I've been waiting for twenty minutes.
How common is zwanzig?
In the news and web texts the list is counted from, zwanzig appears 10 times per million words — about once every 97,000 words. That is below the cut-off: the last of the top 5,000 appears about 16 times per million.
A1 means a beginner word, usually met in the first weeks of learning.
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