This lesson is about ordinal numbers (first, second, third, etc.).
I won’t translate them… you can work out the meanings for yourselves!
Note that ordinal numbers are NOT used for dates in Italian, unlike in English. My birthday is the fourth of April in English, but in Italian it would be “four April”.
I numeri ordinali
primo
secondo
terzo
quarto
quinto
sesto
settimo
ottavo
nono
decimo
From 11 onward, ordinal numbers are formed by dropping the final vowel of the number and adding the suffix -esimo, as in the examples below:
undici —> undicesimo
dodici —> dodicesimo
tredici —> tredicesimo
venti —> ventesimo
ventisette —> ventisettesimo
cento —> centesimo
642º —> seicentoquarantaduesimo
mille —> millesimo
3450º —> tremilaquattrocentocinquantesimo
