No. 1,054 in Catalan
vintena
"Vintena" means "twentieth" or "a set/group of twenty."
In a sentence
Vaig veure una vintena de persones a la reunió.
I saw around twenty people at the meeting.
The word 'vintena' is used to estimate a quantity, approximately twenty.
És el vintena vegada que fem aquest exercici.
It’s the twentieth time we do this exercise.
Here, 'vintena' expresses an ordinal number, specifying the twentieth occurrence of an event.
A l'antiguitat, una vintena d'artesans treballava al taller.
In ancient times, about twenty craftsmen worked in the workshop.
In this case, 'vintena' denotes an approximate group of twenty individuals, emphasizing aggregation.
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