veintiuno

Spanish

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Cardinal: veintiuno     Apocopated cardinal: veintiún     Ordinal: vigesimoprimero, vigésimo primero     Apocopated ordinal: vigesimoprimer, vigésimo primer     Ordinal abbreviation: 21.º     Fractional: veintiunavo
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Alternative forms

• veintiún (apocopic form)

Etymology

From veinte +‎ y +‎ uno.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /beinˈtjuno/ [bẽĩn̪ˈt̪ju.no], /beintiˈuno/ [bẽĩn̪.t̪iˈu.no], /benˈtjuno/ [bẽn̪ˈt̪ju.no], /bentiˈuno/ [bẽn̪.t̪iˈu.no]

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• Rhymes: -uno
• Syllabification: vein‧tiu‧no

Numeral

veintiuno m (feminine veintiuna, masculine before a noun veintiún)

1. twenty-one

Further reading

• “veintiuno”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), 23rd edition, Royal Spanish Academy, 2014 October 16