Dose

twelvenumber

Alternative meanings

The cardinal number representing the quantity of twelve units. It is used to count people, objects, hours, dates, or amounts.

Pronunciation

DOH-seh

Root and affixes

Dose is the number twelve, borrowed from Spanish and used in everyday Cebuano. It can also appear in expressions of time, age, date, or quantity.

Variants or conjugations

twelve; ten and two; twelve o clock; twelfth; a dozen

Related words and expressions

number; ten; two; eleven; thirteen; time; counting; quantity

Meaning and usage notes

Dose is very common for twelve. The descriptive form napulo ug duha means ten and two, but the borrowed form dose is widely used in everyday speech.