Ordinal numbers

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

texid, texji, texsvaf ...

first, second, third, ...

第一, 第二, 第三

Examples

anzoaan texid

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

See also

• Hokkien numerals