Ordinal numbers

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

te-1, te-2, te-3, ...

(texid, texji, texsvaf) ...

first, second, third, ...

第一, 第二, 第三

thaau-cidee, thaau-nngxee, thaau-sva'ee

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