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veintiuno

twenty-one

numeral beyn-tee-OO-noh Rare

Usage Note

Veintiuno apocopates to veintiún directly before a masculine noun: veintiún años, but veintiuna chicas. The written accent on the final o marks stress. It is written as one word, unlike the tens-and-units compounds from 31 onwards (treinta y uno), which are three separate words.

Examples

"Tiene veintiún años recién cumplidos."

Natural Translation

He has just turned twenty-one.

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