March 4, 2020: The Word of the Day is two. I thought we would go up to eleven.
Language | Word |
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Latin | duo, duae, duo |
Japanese | 二 (に ni), 二つ (ふたつ futatsu)** |
Spanish | dos |
Chinese | 二 èr, 两 liǎng (two of something) |
Esperanto | du |
Russian | два (dwa) |
German | zwei |
French | deux |
** note: the pronunciation is reported in Romaji which is the standard to transform phonemes from Japanese scripts to Roman alphabet. Essentially the consonants must be pronounced as in English while the vowels as in Italian/Latin.