Two
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English
Etymology
Old English twa, from Germanic *twai, *two, from PIE *dwô. Cognate to German zwei, French deux, Greek δυο, Russian два. Combining form twi-, cognate to German zwi-, Sanskrit દ્વિ dwi-.
Pronounciation
- AHD: tōō
- IPA:
- SAMPA:
Hyphenation
- two
Cardinal number
two
- Arabic numerals: 2
- Chinese numerals: 貳, 二
- Roman numerals: II, ii (Unicode: Ⅱ, ⅱ)
- The cardinality of the set {0, 1}; one plus one. (The number of eyes that a typical human has.)
- The ordinality of an element whose predecessor is first; usually called second but sometimes number two.
Translations
- Albanian: dy
- Apache (Western): naki
- Arabic: اثنان (iθnaːn), جُوج (zhuzh) (Morocco)
- Aymara: paya
- Basque: bi
- Bosnian: dva m, dvije f, dva n
- Breton: daou m, div f
- Catalan: dos m, dues f (ca)
- Cornish: dew m, diw f
- Cherokee: ᏔᎵ (tali)
- Chinese: 二 ( pinyin: èr )
- Czech: dva, dvě
- Dutch: twee
- Esperanto: du
- Estonian: kaks
- Fijian: rua
- Finnish: kaksi (Suomi)
- French: deux
- Frisian: twa
- German: zwei, zwo (de)
- Greek: δύο
- Guarani: mokõi
- Hebrew: שתיים (Sh'taim) f (Used for numbering) ,שניים (Sh'naim) m
- Hindi: दो
- Hungarian: kettő
- Icelandic: tveir m, tvær f, tvö n
- Ido: du
- Indonesian: dua
- Interlingua: duo
- Italian: due
- Japanese: 二 (に, ni), 二つ (ふたつ, futatsu)
- Kalaallisut: marluk
- Korean: 둘 (dul)/두 (du); 이 (二; i)
- Lingua Franca Nova: du
- Lithuanian: du
- Lojban: re
- Manchu: juwe
- Maricopa: xvikk
- Marshallese: ruo
- Nahuatl: ome
- Norwegian: to
- O'odham: go:k
- Old English: twēġen, twa
- Persian: دو (do)
- Polish: dwa
- Portuguese: dois m (1), duas f (1), número dois (2)
- Romanian: doi m, două f (1); numărul doi
- Russian: два m & n, две f
- Slovio: dva
- Spanish: dos
- Swedish: två (Svenska)
- Filipino: dalawá
- Thai: สอง
- Tok Pisin: tupela
- Tupinambá: mokõî
- Turkish: iki
- Vietnamese: hai (pronounced like the English word high)
- Welsh: dau m (1), dwy f (1), ail (2)
Adjective
two (plural: twos)
Translations
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