Ordinal numbers

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Ordinal number (linguistics) (suxsox) in Taiwanese may begin with te or thaau:

te-1, te-2, te-3, ... (tex'id, texji, texsvaf, ...)
first, second, third, ...
第一, 第二, 第三
thaau-cidee, thaau-nngxee, thaau-sva'ee

Examples

anzoaan tex'id
safety first
安全第一
texji jinzhefng
second person (the form of a verb used when the subject of a sentence is the audience)
第二人稱
texsvaf kokzex
third world
第三國際

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