How to Say "Twelve" in Italian

dodici

/ˈdo.di.t͡ʃi/

The English number twelve is translated into Italian as dodici.

dodici is the cardinal number 12.

Meaning: cardinal number 12 (num)

How does it change in a sentence?

dodici is an invariable numeral, which means it does not change its form based on the gender or number of the nouns it modifies.

The word has 3 syllables, and the stress is on the 1st syllable. In IPA, it is /ˈdo.di.tʃi/.

In Italian, the number dodici is often used in the expression fare le dodici, which can refer to the specific hour of noon or midnight depending on the context of the clock.
The word dodici comes from the Latin duodecim, which literally means 'two besides ten'.
In Italian, a 'dozen' is called una dozzina. While dodici is used for counting, dozzina is used when referring to the number as a commercial unit of measurement.

Io ho dodici anni.
I'm twelve years old.
This sentence is useful for expressing your age using dodici.
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Anna ha dodici anni.
Anna is twelve years old.
This sentence is useful for expressing someone else's age using dodici.
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Un anno ha dodici mesi.
A year has twelve months.
This sentence is useful for stating the number of months in a year using dodici.
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Ho prenotato un tavolo per dodici persone.
I have booked a table for twelve people.
Il mio compleanno è il dodici febbraio.
My birthday is on the twelfth of February.
Oggi ho dormito dodici ore di seguito!
Today I slept for twelve hours straight!
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Sources

Wiktionary, “twelve” translations and entries dodici, CC BY-SA 4.0, dump of 2026-09-26.
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