Twelve Twelv Number Rare Animals Left Sweden’s Top

• there are only twelve of these rare animals left.
• twelve of sweden’s top financial experts
• twenty people were invited but only twelve turned up.
• can you lend me twelve dollars?

twelve

1. 12
• There are only twelve of these rare animals left.
• twelve of Sweden’s top financial experts
• Twenty people were invited but only twelve turned up.
• Can you lend me twelve dollars?
• a twelve-month contract
• Look at page twelve.
• Twelve and three is fifteen.
• Two twelves are twenty-four.
• I can't read your writing—is this meant to be a twelve?
• The bulbs are planted in nines and twelves (= groups of nine or twelve).
• We moved to America when I was twelve (= twelve years old).
• Shall we meet at twelve (= at twelve o'clock), then?

Word Origin

• Old English twelf(e), from the base of two + a second element (probably expressing the sense ‘left over’); of Germanic origin and related to Dutch twaalf and German zwölf. Compare with eleven.