Ordinal numbers

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

texid, texji, texsvaf ... (第一, 第二, 第三 ...)

first, second, third, ...

Examples

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

See also

• sorji