zwo
See also: ȝwo
German
Etymology
From Old High German zwō, from Proto-Germanic *twaōz, *twōz (see *twai), from Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁. Zwo was originally feminine (see zween), but is now used as a variant of zwei without gender distinction. Compare, however, Luxembourgish zwou, which is still a feminine form of zwéin. The same is true of some German dialects, e.g. in Switzerland. More at two.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t͡svoː/, [t͡sʋoː]
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Numeral
zwo
- (cardinal number) two
- Synonym: zwei
Usage notes
- Zwei is the usual German word for "two", but zwo is sometimes used as more clearly distinguishable from drei (“three”), especially over the telephone and in military parlance. Outside of these contexts, it is used chiefly in southern Germany and Austria.
Coordinate terms
German cardinal numbers from 0 to 99
German cardinal numbers from 100 onward
- 100: hundert, einhundert
- 103: tausend, eintausend
- 104: zehntausend (Myriade)
- 106: Million (tausendmaltausend, tausendtausend)
- 109: Milliarde
- 1012: Billion
- 1015: Billiarde
- 1018: Trillion
- 1021: Trilliarde
- 1024: Quadrillion
- 1027: Quadrilliarde
- 1030: Quintillion
- 1033: Quintilliarde
- 1036: Sextillion
- 1039: Sextilliarde
- 1042: Septillion
- 1045: Septilliarde
- 1048: Oktillion
- 1051: Oktilliarde
- 1054: Nonillion
- 1057: Nonilliarde
- 1060: Dezillion
- 1063: Dezilliarde
- 1066: Undezillion
- 1069: Undezilliarde
- 1072: Duodezillion
- 1075: Duodezilliarde
- 1078: Tredezillion
- 1081: Tredezilliarde
- 1084: Quattuordezillion
- 1087: Quattuordezilliarde
- 1090: Quindezillion
- 1093: Quindezilliarde
- 1096: Sexdezillion
- 1099: Sexdezilliarde
- 10100: Googol
- …
- 10120: Vigintillion
- 10123: Vigintilliarde
- …
Numeral
zwo
- feminine of zween