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Cardinal | Ordinal | |||
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one | 1 | first | 1st | |
two | 2 | second | 2nd | |
three | 3 | third | 3rd | |
four | 4 | fourth | 4th | |
five | 5 | fifth | 5th | |
six | 6 | sixth | 6th | |
seven | 7 | seventh | 7th | |
eight | 8 | eighth | 8th | |
nine | 9 | ninth | 9th | |
ten | 10 | tenth | 10th |
Inlinguistics, and more precisely in traditional grammar, a cardinal numeral (orcardinal number word) is a part of speech used to count. Examples in English are the words one, two, three, and the compounds three hundred [and] forty-two and nine hundred [and] sixty. Cardinal numerals are classified as definite, and are related to ordinal numbers, such as the English first, second, third, etc.[1][2][3]
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