Logos

Words / cls.spa.numeral

veintiuno

Identity

Lemma
veintiuno
Part of speech
cls.spa.numeralread off the URL segment (in turn parsed from the LEXEME id by lib/routes.ts’s posAndLemmaOf), because Lexeme carries no pos field yet (LAN-217/LAN-274). This route is built to prefer node.data.pos as the field once that migration lands; until then, the id is the only source and this line says so rather than hiding it.
Frequency rank
frequency rank: not recorded. Nobody has written this yetnot recorded
Gloss
The cardinal for a count of twenty one, which inherits both the gender inflection and the shortening of the unit inside it.

This compound is the only one in the whole range that inflects, and it inflects because the unit inside it does. It carries a written accent on its last syllable and shortens before a masculine noun exactly as the bare unit does, so the inflection of the simple word is visible inside a word that is otherwise a single stored spelling. The feminine shape does not shorten, which reproduces the same asymmetry the unit shows.

Sourced from:

  • Nueva gramática de la lengua española (2009)grammarentryno public licenceretrieved 2026-08-04by Real Academia Española and Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española
  • A New Reference Grammar of Modern Spanish (Butt and Benjamin)grammarentryno public licenceretrieved 2026-08-04by John Butt and Carmen Benjamin

Paradigm

Non-finite forms (no person, so no coordinate in the five-column grid):

  • veintiunaThe feminine shape of the cardinal for twenty one, used both before its noun and on its own.
  • veintiunoThe masculine shape of the cardinal for twenty one, used when no noun follows it.
  • veintiúnThe shortened masculine shape of the cardinal for twenty one, used immediately before the masculine noun it counts.

Class memberships

has-a edges to CLASS objects (06-surface.md §5.2) — the door back into the grammar. Subsumption (is-a) is not available here: it is same-type-only (A3), so a LEXEME cannot is-a a CLASS.

Examples

Each example declares its dialect and tier, per 06-surface.md §5.2 (“the interface ranks and labels rather than silently mixing registers”).

No examples are recorded for this lexeme (Lexeme.examples is optional; absent key = unstated, per lib/schema/nodes.ts’s own note — never a stub sentence invented to fill the section).

Where the grammar discusses this word

05-vocabulary.md §10.9’s own requirement: “a vocab entry links back to the grammar.” has-a edges to CATEGORY and inbound selects edges, both real graph edges rather than a generated cross-reference.

No CATEGORY membership or selects edge is recorded for this lexeme.