![]() ![]() part "one of the fourth, one of the fifth" 31, 41Įven older forms included kymmentä at the end, giving for example yksi-toista-kymmentä "one of the second decade" for 11 and viisi-kolmatta-kymmentä "five of the third decade" for 25. part "two tens, one of the third, two of the third, … nine of the third" 20, 21, 22, … 29 kaksi-kymmentä, yksi-kolmatta, kaksi-kolmatta, … yhdeksän-kolmatta.This usage is now considered archaic and the suffix toista is treated as a particle instead of meaning "of the second". In older Finnish, all numbers were constructed like this. part "one of the second, two of the second, … nine of the second" 11, 12, … 19 yksi-toista, kaksi-toista, … yhdeksän-toista.In Finnish text, hyphens are not written. Hyphens are written here to separate morphemes. Toista is the partitive form of toinen, meaning "second group of ten". To form teens, toista is added to the base number. ^ sometimes seitsentä (alternative form).(Corresponding the formal and ordinary counting in Estonian.) The dialectic-colloquial forms may leave the d off and sometimes also the genetive ending n: yhden ⇒ yhe(n) kahden ⇒ kahe(n) viiden ⇒ viie(n) kuuden ⇒ kuue(n) kahdeksan ⇒ kaheksa(n) yhdeksän ⇒ yheksä(n). Note: in parentheses, alternative form for counting, and colloquial. Cardinal numbers may be inflected and some of the inflected forms are irregular in form. The ordinary counting numbers (cardinals) from 0 to 10 are given in the table below. Numbers in Finnish are highly systematic, but can be irregular. Wikipedia's multilingual support templates may also be used - notably fi for Finnish. Spelling rules with whole numbers - 20th, 30th, 40th.Ģ0th = twentieth We have twenty and change the 'y' to 'ie' and add 'th' = twent ieth (My birthday is on the 20th)ģ0th = thirtieth (It's her thirtieth birthday.)Ĥ0th = fortieth (It's my 40th birthday tomorrow.This article or section should specify the language of its non-English content, using for phonetic transcriptions, with an appropriate ISO 639 code. ![]() Remember, no space between hyphen and words. Twenty-first = 21st (It's her 21st on Sunday.) ![]() Using a hyphen also applies to ordinal numbers from 21st. One thousand two hundred and thirty-one pounds Notice there's no space between the letters and hyphen: We need a hyphen when we write cardinal numbers from 21 upwards. Hyphens for Normal Numbers and Ordinal Numbers from 21 upwards Third - last two letters are 'rd' so put after 3 = 3rdĤth - last two letters are 'th' so put after 4 = 4thġ5th = fifteenth (It's her fifteenth birthday.) Second - last two letters are 'nd' put after 2 = 2nd Look at these and notice the last two letters of the wordsĬan you see the last two letters of the words make up the ordinal number?įir st - last two letters are 'st' so put after 1 = 1st But it's OK to write them in numbers (1st, 2nd, 3rd.) in informal writing to friends, colleagues, social media comments, etc. We need to write these ordinal numbers in words in formal writing - business, job applications, etc. In this lesson, we're looking at the spelling of ordinal numbers and a few rules.ģrd = third (Take the third turning on the left.)ĥth = fifth (This is the 5th time I've taken my driving test.) Why do we spell 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th like this? These numbers are called ordinal numbers. ![]()
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