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sarahawooden2017
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1st, 2nd, 3rd.

Postby sarahawooden2017 » July 15th, 2011 6:10 pm

I am trying to find correct translation for ordinal numbers such as 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th.

Ex:
The boy came in 3rd place in the race!

She is 6th in line.

This is the 2nd time she has called today.

If this was in any of the lessons can you please direct me to them because I have not found them :(.

j_bertoni2279
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Postby j_bertoni2279 » July 16th, 2011 5:02 am

There are a lot of counter words in Japanese. The plain ordinal numbers are daiiti (第一) and so on. For third in a race, I think sanban (三番) (the cardinal) would be fine. For the phone, maybe 二度目 would be okay. Hopefully, someone else will help.
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Postby Javizy » July 16th, 2011 9:09 am

Rank is counted with 位(い)so third place would be 3位(さんい). For the difference between 目 and 第 check here.

sarahawooden2017
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thanks

Postby sarahawooden2017 » July 16th, 2011 11:36 pm

Thanks Ill look at the link and try to make some sense into it! Seems like this one is difficult..

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