two

See also: two- and twò

two - Translingual

Pronunciation

IPA: [ˈtu]

Noun

two

(international standards) NATO & ICAO phonetic alphabet clear code for the digit 2.
- Synonym: bissotwo (ITU/IMO)

two - English

Alternative forms

twa
twey (archaic)

Pronunciation

(obsolete) IPA: /twuː/, enPR: two͞o
Homophones: to, too

Numeral

two

A numerical value equal to 2; this many dots (••).
Describing a set or group with two elements.

Derived terms

Translations

Aari: qaskén
Abaza: гӏвба (ʻʷba)
Abkhaz: ҩба (jʷba)
Adyghe: тӏу (tʷʼu)
Afar: nammáy
Afrikaans: twee (af)
Aghwan: 𐕗𐕈 (ṗå), 𐕗𐔽𐔰 (ṗˁa)
Ainu: ツ゜ (tu)
Akan: abien, abieng
Akkadian: 𒈫 (šinā)
Aklanon: daewa
Albanian: dy (sq)
Alutiiq: mal'uk
American Sign Language: V@Side-PalmForward
Amharic: ሁለት (am) (hulät) (numeral: ፪ (2))
Amuzgo: bè
Western Apache: nakih
Andi: чӏегу (čʼegu)
Arabic: اِثْنَانِ‎ (ar) du (iṯnāni), (numeral: ٢‎ (2))
- Egyptian Arabic: اتنين‎ (itnēn)
- Hijazi Arabic: اثنين‎ (itnēn, iṯnēn), اتنين‎ (itnēn)
- Moroccan Arabic: جوج‎ (jūj), تنين‎ (tnīn)
Aragonese: dos
Aramaic:
- Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܬܪܹܝ‎ m (trēy), ܬܲܪܬܹܝܢ‎ f (tārtēyn)
- Hebrew: תרין‎ m (trēn), תרתין‎ f (tartēn)
- Syriac: ܬܪܝܢ‎ m (trēn), ܬܪܬܝܢ‎ f (tartēn)
- Western Neo-Aramaic: ܐܬܪ‎ m (ʾeṯər), ܬܪܬ̤‎ f (ṯarč)
Archi: къвеӏ (qʷʼẹ)
Argobba: ኼት (xete)
Armenian: երկու (hy) (erku), երկուս (erkus)
Aromanian: doi (roa-rup)
Asháninka: apite
Assamese: দুই (dui) (numeral: ২)
Asturian: dos (ast)
Atong (India): ni
Avar: кӏиго (kʼigo)
Aymara: paya (ay)
Azerbaijani: iki (az)
Baekje: 矣毛邑 (*iterəp)
Balinese: dadua
Baluchi: دو‎
Banjarese: dua
Bashkir: ике (ike)
Basque: bi (eu)
Bassa: sɔ̃́
Bavarian: zwoa
Bay Miwok: osha
Belarusian: два (be) m (dva), (collective) дво́е (dvóje), дво́йка f (dvójka)
Bengali: দুই (bn) (dui) (numeral: ২)
Big Nambas: iru
Bikol Central: duwa (bcl)
Binukid: daduwa
Bislama: tu
Brahui: iraŧ
Breton: daou (br) m, div (br) f
Brunei Malay: dua
Budukh: кьад (qʼad)
Buginese: dua
Bulgarian: две (bg) (dve)
Burmese: နှစ် (my) (hnac) (numeral: ၂ (my) (2))
Buryat: хоёр (xojor)
Catalan: dos (ca) m, dues (ca) f
Cebuano: duha
Central Atlas Tamazight: ⵙⵉⵏ m (sin)
Central Dusun: duo
Central Sierra Miwok: ˀoṭí·-
Cham:
- Eastern Cham: dua
- Western Cham: please add this translation if you can
Chamicuro: ma'pojta
Chechen: шиъ (šiʔ)
Chepang: नीस्‌ (nis)
Cherokee: ᏔᎵ (tali)
Chichewa: wiri
Chickasaw: toklo
Chinese:
- Cantonese: 二 (yue) (ji⁶), 兩／两 (loeng⁵)
- Dungan: эр (er), лён (li͡on)
- Gan: 二 (eo⁵)
- Hakka: 二 (ngi), 兩／两 (lióng)
- Mandarin: 二 (zh) (èr), 兩／两 (zh) (liǎng)
- Min Dong: 二 (nê), 兩／两 (lâng)
- Min Nan: 二 (zh-min-nan) (jī, lī), 兩／两 (zh-min-nan) (nn̄g)
  - Teochew: 二 (ri⁶), 兩／两 (no⁶)
- Wu: 二 (nyi, hher), 兩／两 (lian)
Chuanqiandian Cluster Miao: lf (Dananshan Miao)
Chukchi: ӈирэӄ (ṇirėq)
Chuukese: ru, turu, rue-, ruechö, ruefou, ruömön
Chuvash: иккӗ (ikkĕ), икӗ (ik̬ĕ), ик (ik)
Cornish: dew m, diw f
Corsican: dui (co)
Cowlitz: sáliʔ
Cree: nîso
Crimean Tatar: eki
Czech: dva (cs), dvě (cs), (collective) dvoje (cs)
Dalmatian: doi
Danish: to (da)
Dena'ina: nutiha
Dhivehi: ދޭ‎ (dē)
Dinka: rou
Dolgan: икки (ikki)
Dutch: twee (nl)
Dzongkha: གཉིས (gnyis)
Early Modern Korean: 둟 (twulh)
Elfdalian: twer m, twär f, tau n, twå
Enga: lapo
Erzya: кавто (kavto)
Esperanto: du (eo)
Estonian: kaks (et)
Even: дөр (dör)
Evenki: дюр (ʒur)
Extremaduran: dos
Farefare: yi, bayi
Faroese: tveir (fo) m, tvær f, tvey n
Fataluku: ece
Fijian: rua (fj)
Finnish: kaksi (fi)
French: deux (fr)
Friulian: doi, dôs
Ga: enyɔ̃, enyɔ
Galician: dous (gl), dúas f
Garifuna: biñá, biama, bián
Ge'ez: ክልኤቱ m (kəlʾetu), ክልኤቲ f (kəlʾeti) (numeral: ፪ (2))
Georgian: ორი (ka) (ori)
German: zwei (de) (zwo (de), zween)
Gilaki: دو‎ (do)
Gothic: 𐍄𐍅𐌰𐌹 (twai)
Greek: δύο (el) (dýo)
- Ancient: δύο (dúo), β΄ (numeral)
Greenlandic: marluk (kl)
Guaraní: mokõi
Gujarati: બગડો (bagḍo) (numeral: ૨)
Hadza: piye m and nominal inflections; konxa and verbal inflections
Haitian Creole: de
Hausa: biyu (ha)
Hawaiian: lua, ʻelua
Hebrew: שתיים / שְׁתַּיִם‎ (he) f (sh'táyim) (used for numbering), שניים / שְׁנַיִם‎ m (sh'náyim)
Higaonon: daduwa
Hindi: दो (hi) (do) (numeral: २), दुई (hi) (duī), द्वि (hi) (dvi)
Hiri Motu: rua
Hlai: hlaus
Hopi: lööyöʼ
Hungarian: kettő (hu), két (hu)
Hunsrik: zweu
Iban: dua
Icelandic: tveir (is) m, tvær (is) f, tvö (is) n
Ido: du (io)
Ifè: méèdzì
Igala: èjì
Igbo: àbụ̀ọ
Ilocano: dua
Indonesian: dua (id)
Ingrian: kaks
Interlingua: duo (ia)
Iranun: dua
Irish: dó (ga), (when counting objects) dhá, (when counting people) beirt
- Old Irish: dá
Isekiri: meji
Isnag: duwa
Istriot: dui, duj
Istro-Romanian: doi
Italian: due (it)
Japanese: 二 (ja) (ni), 二つ (ja) (futatsu)
Javanese: loro (jv), ro (jv), roro (jv)
Jeju: 둘 (dul) (native), 두 (du) (native determiner), 이 (i) (Sino)
Jersey Dutch: twî
Kabardian: тӏу (tʷʼu)
Kabuverdianu: dos
Kaingang: régre
Kalmyk: хойр (xoyr)
Kannada: ಎರಡು (kn) (eraḍu) (numeral: ೨ (kn) (2))
Kanuri: indi
Kapampangan: addua
Karachay-Balkar: эки (eki)
Karaim: ėki
Karakhanid: اِكّٖى‎ (ikkī)
Karelian: kaksi
Kashubian: dwa
Kazakh: екі (kk) (ekı)
Khakas: ікі (ìkì)
Khanty: (Kazym) кӑт (kăt), кӑтн (kătn)
Khinalug: кӏу (ḳu)
Khmer: ពីរ (km) (pii) (numeral: ២ (2))
Khoekhoe: ǀgam
Kikuyu: ĩrĩ class 2/4/6/13, igĩrĩ class 8/10
Kokborok: nwi
Komi-Zyrian: кык (kyk)
Kongo: zole
Korean: 둘 (ko) (dul), (adjective) 두 (ko) (du), 이 (ko) (i)
Kumyk: эки (eki)
Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: دوو‎ (ckb) (dû)
- Northern Kurdish: du (ku)
Kyrgyz: эки (ky) (eki)
Ladakhi: གཉིས (gnyis)
Ladin: doi
Lak: кӏива (kʼiwa)
Lakota: núŋpa
Lao: ສອງ (sǭng) (numeral: ໒ (2))
Latgalian: div
Latin: duo (la) m or n, duae (la) f
Latvian: divi (lv), divas
Lezgi: кьвед (q̇ved)
Ligurian: dui
Lisu: ꓮꓶꓸ (ɯ́)
Lithuanian: du (lt) m, dvi (lt) f
Livonian: kakš
Lombard: du (lmo) m, dòe f, dô m, dò f
Louisiana Creole French: dé, de
Low German:
- Dutch Low Saxon: twei
- German Low German: twei
Lushootseed: saliʔ
Luxembourgish: zwee (lb), zwéin (lb), zwou (lb)
Lü: ᦉᦸᧂ (ṡoang) (numeral: ᧒)
Macedonian: два (mk) (dva)
Maguindanao: duwa
Makasar: ruwa
Malagasy: roa (mg)
Malay:
- Rumi: dua (ms), dwi
- Jawi: دوا‎, دوي‎
Malayalam: രണ്ടു (ml) (raṇṭu), രണ്ട് (ml) (raṇṭŭ) (numeral :൨)
Maltese: tnejn (mt) m or f
Manchu: ᠵᡠᠸᡝ (juwe)
Mangarevan: rua
Mansi: китыг (kityg)
Manx: daa, ghaa
Maori: rua (mi)
Mapudungun: epu
Maranao: dowa
Marathi: दोन (mr) (don) (numeral: २)
Mari:
- Eastern Mari: кокыт (kokyt)
Maricopa: xavik, hvik
Marshallese: ruo
Mauritian Creole: de
Mbyá Guaraní: mokoĩ
Megleno-Romanian: doi
Mi'kmaq: dabu
Middle English: two
Middle Korean: 둟〯 (twǔlh)
Minangkabau: duo (min)
Mirandese: dous
Mizo: pa-hnih
Mon: ၜါ (ba)
Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: хоёр (mn) (xojor)
- Mongolian: ᠬᠣᠶᠠᠷ (qoyar), ᠒ (2) (numeral)
Montagnais: nishᵘ
Motu: rua
Muong: hàl
Mòcheno: zboa
Nahuatl: ome (nah)
Nanai: дюэр
Nauruan: aro
Navajo: naaki
Naxi: ni
Neapolitan: dùie
Nepali: दुई (ne) (duī) (numeral: २)
Ngazidja Comorian: -ili
Nigerian Pidgin: tu
Niuean: ua
Nivkh: менӈ (menŋ)
North Frisian: (Mooring) twäär m tou f or n, (Föhr-Amrum, Helgoland, Sylt) tau
North Marquesan: úa
Northern Ohlone: uṯhin
Northern Thai: ᩈᩬᨦ, ᩈᩬᩙ
Norwegian: to (no)
O'odham: go꞉k
Occitan: dos (oc) m, doas (oc) f
Ojibwe: niizh
Okinawan: 二 (ni), 二ち (tāchi)
Old Church Slavonic: дъва m (dŭva) (numeral: в҃)
Old English: twēġen m, twā f or n
Old Frisian: twā
Old Javanese: rwa
Old Korean: 二尸 (*TWUPUl)
Old Turkic: 𐰚𐰃‎ (ki /eki/)
Olukumi: èzì
Oriya: ଦୁଇ (or) (dui) (numeral: ୨ (2))
Oromo: lama (om)
Oscan: 𐌃𐌖𐌔 (dus)
Ossetian: дыууӕ (dywwæ)
Ottoman Turkish: ایكی‎ (iki)
Papiamentu: dos
Pashto: دوه‎ (ps) (dwa)
Pennsylvania German: zwee, zvay
Persian: دو‎ (fa) (do) (numeral: ۲‎)
Piedmontese: doi m, doe f
Pijin: tu
Pipil: ume
Polish: dwa (pl) n
Portuguese: dois (pt) m, duas (pt) f
Punjabi: ਦੋ (do) (numeral: ੨ (2))
Purepecha: tsimani
Quechua: iskay (qu), iskai, işkai
Rapa Nui: rua
Rarotongan: rua
Ratahan: rua
Rawang: ní
Rendille: lama
Rohingya: dui
Romagnol: du
Romani: dui
- Kalo Finnish Romani: dui
Romanian: doi (ro) m, două (ro) f
Romansch: dus m, duas f
Russian: два (ru) m or n (dva), две (ru) f (dve), дво́е (ru) (dvóje) (collective), дво́йка (ru) f (dvójka)
Rusyn: два (dva)
S'gaw Karen: ခံ (khee)
Saho: lamma
Sami:
- Inari: kyehti
- Northern: guokte
- Skolt: kue´htt
- Southern: göökte
Samoan: lua (sm)
Sanskrit: द्वि (sa) (dvi)
Santali: ᱵᱟᱨ (bar)
Sarcee: ákíyi
Sardinian
- Campidanese: duus
- Logudorese: duos
Saterland Frisian: two
Scots: twa
Scottish Gaelic: dà (before nouns), dhà (free-standing), (persons) dithis f
Semai: due
Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: два̑
- Roman: dvȃ
Shan: သွင် (shn) (sǎung) (numeral: ႒)
Sherpa: གཉིས (gnyis)
Shor: ийги (iygi)
Sichuan Yi: ꑍ (nyip)
Sicilian: dui (scn)
Sidamo: lame
Sikkimese: ཉི (nyi)
Sindhi: ٻَه‎ (sd) (ba)
Sinhalese: දෙක (si) (deka)
Slovak: dvaja, dva (sk), dve
Slovene: dvá (sl), (when counting) dvé (sl)
Slovincian: dvȧ̃
Somali: laba (so), labba
Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: dwa
- Upper Sorbian: dwaj (hsb) m, dwě f or n
South Marquesan: úa
Southern Altai: эки (eki)
Southern Ohlone: utsgin
Spanish: dos (es)
Sranan Tongo: tu
Sumerian: 𒈫 (min)
Swahili: wili
Swazi: bili
Swedish: två (sv)
Tabasaran: кьюб (q̇jub)
Tagalog: dalawa (tl)
Tahitian: piti, (when counting objects) rua, (when counting people) to'opiti
Tai Dam: ꪎꪮꪉ
Tai Nüa: ᥔᥩᥒᥴ (sóang)
Tajik: ду (tg) (du)
Talysh: (Asalemi) ده‎ (də)
Tamil: இரண்டு (ta) (iraṇṭu) (numeral: ௨)
Tangut: 𗍫 (*njɨ̱¹)
Taos: wí’iną
Tarantino: dò
Tashelhit: sin m, snat f
Tatar: ике (tt) (ike)
Tausug: duwa
Tedim Chin: nih
Telugu: రెండు (te) (reṇḍu) (numeral: ౨ (te) (2))
Ternate: romdidi
Tetum: rua
Thai: สอง (th) (sɔ̌ɔng) (numeral: ๒ (th) (2))
Tibetan: གཉིས (gnyis) (numeral: ༢ (2))
Tidore: malofo
Tigre: ክልኦት m (kəlʾot), ክልኤ f (kəlʾe) (numeral: ፪ (2))
Tigrinya: ክልተ (ti) (kəltä) (numeral: ፪ (2))
Timugon Murut: duo
Tlingit: déix̱, dáx̱náx̱
Tocharian A: wu, we
Tocharian B: wi
Tok Pisin: tupela
Tongan: ua
Tupinambá: mokõî
Turkish: iki (tr)
Turkmen: iki (tk)
Tuvaluan: lua
Tuvan: ийи (iyi)
Tz'utujil: ka’i
Udi: пӏаъ (ṗa̱)
Udmurt: кык (kyk)
Ukrainian: два (uk) m (dva), дві f (dvi), дво́є (dvóje) (collective), дві́йко (dvíjko)(colloquial), дві́єчко (dvíječko) (colloquial diminutive), дві́йка (uk) f (dvíjka)
Umbrian: 𐌕𐌖𐌚 (tuf)
Unami: nisha
Urdu: دو‎ (do)
Uyghur: ئىككى‎ (ug) (ikki)
Uzbek: ikki (uz)
Venetian: do (vec), due (vec)
Veps: kaks'
Vietnamese: hai (vi)
Vilamovian: cwe
Volapük: tel (vo)
Votic: kahs, kahsi
Võro: katś
Wakhi: bu
Walloon: deus (wa)
Waray-Waray: duha
Welsh: dau (cy) m, dwy (cy) f
West Frisian: twa (fy)
Western Apache: naki, nakih, nakih
Western Bukidnon Manobo: dezuwa
White Hmong: ob
Winnebago: nųųp
Wiradhuri: bula
Wolof: ñaar (wo)
Xhosa: bini
Yagara: budela, burla
Yagnobi: ду (du)
Yakan: duwe
Yakut: икки (ikki)
Yao: wili
Yiddish: צוויי‎ (tsvey)
Yoruba: èjì, eéjì (counting), méjì
Yup'ik: malruk
Yámana: kampeipi
Zaghawa: suwi
Zazaki: dı
Zealandic: tweê, tweêje (in counting)
Zhuang: ngeih, ŋeiƅ (Sawndip 二); song, soŋ (雙, 双)
Zou: ni
Zulu: bili
Zuni: kwili

Belarusian: па́ра f (pára)
Finnish: kaksi (fi)
Italian: paio (it) m, coppia (it) f
Russian: пара (ru) (para)

Noun

two (plural twos)

The digit/figure 2.
- The number 2202 contains three twos.
(US, informal) A two-dollar bill.
A child aged two.
- This toy is suitable for the twos and threes.
A playing card featuring two pips.
Two o'clock, either a.m. or p.m.

Derived terms

Translations

Armenian: երկու (hy) (erku), երկուս (erkus)
Asturian: dos (ast) m
Basque: bi (eu)
Belarusian: дво́йка f (dvójka)
Bikol Central: duwa (bcl)
Catalan: dos (ca) m
Cebuano: duha
Chinese:
- Mandarin: 二 (zh) (èr)
Corsican: dui (co) m, duie (co) f
Czech: dvojka (cs) f
Danish: total n
Dutch: twee (nl) f
Esperanto: du (eo)
Estonian: kaks (et)
Farefare: yi, bayi
Faroese: tveytal n
Finnish: kakkonen (fi)
French: deux (fr) m or pl
Galician: dous (gl) m
German: Zwei (de) f
Hebrew: שתיים‎ (he) f (shtáyim)
Hindi: दो (hi) m (do)
Hungarian: kettő (hu), kettes (hu)
Ilocano: dua
Interlingua: duo (ia), duos pl
Irish: dhá
Italian: due (it) m or pl
Japanese: 二 (ja) (ni)
Lithuanian: dvejetas (lt) m
Macedonian: двојка f (dvojka)
Maltese: tnejn (mt) m or f
Pashto: دوه‎ (ps) (dwa)
Pennsylvania German: zwee
Persian: دو‎ (fa) (do)
Polish: dwójka (pl) f
Portuguese: dois (pt) m
Romanian: doi (ro) m
Russian: дво́йка (ru) f (dvójka), пара (ru) (para)
Scottish Gaelic: dhà
Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: дво́јка f
- Roman: dvójka (sh) f
Slovene: dvojka f
Spanish: dos (es) m
Swedish: tvåa (sv) c
Tagalog: dalawa (tl)
Tamil: இரண்டு (ta) (iraṇṭu)
Tok Pisin: tu
Ukrainian: дві́йка (uk) f (dvíjka)
Welsh: dau (cy) m, dwy (cy) f

Dutch: biljet van twee dollar n
Faroese: tveydollaraseðil m
Finnish: kahden dollarin seteli
French: billet de deux dollars m
Galician: billete de dous dólares
German: Zweier (de) m, Zweidollarschein m
Italian: biglietto da due dollari m, bancanota da due dollari f
Navajo: naaki béeso
Portuguese: cédula de dois dólares f, nota de dois dólares f
Russian: двухдо́лларовая купюра f (dvuxdóllarovaja kupjura), двухдо́лларовая банкнота f (dvuxdóllarovaja banknota)
Swedish: tvådollarssedel c

Finnish: kaksi vuotias
Polish: dwulatek (pl) m, dwulatka (pl) f
Russian: двухлетний (ребёнок) (dvuxletnij (rebjónok))

Finnish: kakkonen (fi)

Anagrams

OTW, TOW, Tow, WTO, owt, tow, wot

two - Middle English

Alternative forms

twa (Early ME, Northern ME)
tuo

Pronunciation

IPA: /twɔː/, /twoː/
(Northern ME) IPA: /twɑː/

Numeral

two

Related terms

Descendants

English: two
Scots: twa, twae

two - Saterland Frisian

Pronunciation

IPA: /tvɔ/

Numeral

two

feminine of twäin
neuter of twäin