két

See also: ket, Ket, kết, and -ket

Hungarian

Etymology

From Proto-Uralic *käktä.[1][2]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈkeːt]
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Numeral

két

  1. two (only as counter before nouns)
    két ember ― two people
    Synonym: kettő

Usage notes

Két can only stand before a noun (or an adjective and a noun) but never on its own. If it were to stand on its own (as a predicate, or a short reference to a noun phrase with this quantity), kettő must be used instead. (Note that the same syntactic difference exists between kicsi and kis in Hungarian, both of which mean 'small'.) Their distribution is comparable to that of "sick" and "ill" in English: "they are ill" (cf. kettő, kicsi, when used on their own) vs. "sick people" (cf. két, kis, i.e. used before a noun).

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References
  1. Entry #227 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
  2. Zaicz, Gábor. Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (’Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Probably from French perroquet.

Noun

(classifier con) két (鴶, 𪁄)

  1. (chiefly Southern Vietnam) parrot
Synonyms

Etymology 2

Probably from French paquet or English packet.

Noun

(classifier cái, chiếc) két

  1. safe; strongbox; coffer; lockbox
  2. case (used to store glass bottles of beer or soft drink)
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