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Spanish Word of the Day Archive
Thursday July 5, 2007
veinte, adjective, pronoun:
twenty
Veinte is the Spanish word for twenty.
Tiene veinte años.
He’s twenty.
(Don’t forget to add the word for years - años - in Spanish.)
Sometimes veinte is used when we would say twentieth in English, especially when talking about the date.
el veinte de enero
January twentieth
el siglo veinte
the twentieth century
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