Ordinal numbers: Difference between revisions

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Ordinal number (linguistics) in Taiwanese usually begin with te:

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

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-'''{{w|Ordinal number (linguistics)}}''' in Taiwanese are written in [[Harnji]]: {{wt|第一}}, {{wt|第二}}, {{wt|第三}}, etc.
+'''{{w|Ordinal number (linguistics)}}''' in Taiwanese usually begin with ''{{x|te}}'':
+; {{x|texid}}, {{x|texji}}, {{x|texsvaf}} ... ({{wt|第一}}, {{wt|第二}}, {{wt|第三}} ...)
+: first, second, third, ...
-==How do I say these?==
+== Examples ==
-;{{tts|anzoaan texid}} {{wt|安全第一}} :safety first
+; {{tts|anzoaan texid}} {{wt|安全第一}}
-;{{tts|texji jinzhefng}} {{wt|第二人稱}} :second person (the form of a verb used when the subject of a sentence is the audience)
+: safety first
-;{{tts|texsvaf kokzex}} {{wt|第三國際}} :third world
+; {{tts|texji jinzhefng}} {{wt|第二人稱}}
+: second person (the form of a verb used when the subject of a sentence is the audience)
+; {{tts|texsvaf kokzex}} {{wt|第三國際}}
+: third world
-Only the first two use literary [[sorji]], the rest use colloquial.
+== See also ==
+* [[sorji]]
+* {{gs|tøe|第}}
-==Style note==
+[[Category:sorji]]
-*''te'' is shortened from ''tøe''
-**Example: tøexid -> texid, also tøe-1, te-1, etc
-==See also==
-*[[sorji]]