vingt

• Rhymes: -ɪŋt

vingt

1. second-person (gij) singular past indicative of vangen

Inherited from Middle French vingt, from Old French vint, from Latin vīgintī, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁wih₁ḱm̥ti, *dwi(h₁)dḱm̥ti. The Latin -g- was regularly lost in Old French, but was added back to the spelling in Middle French (now placed after the -n- in order to maintain the pronunciation).

• IPA^(key): /vɛ̃/

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  • (Quebec) IPA^(key): [vẽɪ̯̃t]
• IPA^(key): /vɛ̃t/ (see usage note below)
• Rhymes: -ɛ̃, -ɛ̃t
• Homophones: vain, vainc, vaincs, vains, vin, vingts, vins, vint, vînt

vingt (invariable)

1. twenty

• Apart from liaison contexts, the final -t is pronounced in the compound numbers 21 to 29: vingt-cinq /vɛ̃t.sɛ̃k/.
• In contrast, the final -t in vingt in 81 to 99 is never pronounced (no liaison at all): quatre-vingt-un /ka.tʁə.vɛ̃.œ̃/ not */ka.tʁə.vɛ̃.tœ̃/.
• 80 is quatre-vingts with -s at the end. Therefore the liaison for 80 is /s/ not /t/. But when used in a compound, the form quatre-vingt (without -s) is used, e.g. quatre-vingt-un.
• A minority of speakers also pronounce the -t in isolation (il y en a vingt). This is most common in Switzerland, Belgium, and adjacent regions of eastern France such as Nord-Pas-de-Calais, Champagne-Ardennes, Lorraine, Alsace and Franche-Comte. Some of these speakers pronounce the -t even before a consonant (vingt fois).

• quatre-vingts
• vingtaine
• vingt dieux
• vingtième

• Haitian Creole: ven
• Louisiana Creole: vin
• Mauritian Creole: vin
• → Garifuna: wein

• “vingt”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• vîngt (Jersey)

From Old French vint, from Latin vīgintī, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁wih₁ḱm̥ti < *dwi(h₁)dḱm̥ti.

vingt

1. (Guernsey) twenty