This numbers video will teach you about expressing ordinal numbers in English. Make sure you understand the difference between cardinal and ordinal numbers. Ordinal numbers are very important in English.
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In this video, we are going to talk about ordinal numbers.
Now, ordinal numbers are different than cardinal numbers.
Of course cardinal numbers are numbers like one two three four five.
Ordinal numbers are used for expressing things like rank.
First, second, third place… uhhh… in a contest.
Or they’re used to express anniversaries.
And it’s also used commonly in the calendar for dates.
So this where we use ordinal numbers.
So, in this video, I’m going to teach you how to write ordinal numbers and also pronounce them correctly.
So, we’re going to look at the first ten.
I have the first ten here.
So let’s go through them very quickly.
This is “first”…and if you notice the last two letters…I underline in blue.
The last two letters are very important.
So, if you see first, the last two letters are ‘s-t’.
So when we want to write an ordinal number, we have number one, we must use the last two letters.
The last two letters are ‘s-t’.
So this is our ordinal number.
So this,”first” and now we write it like this.
And the ‘s-t’ is usually up.
Let’s move on to “second”.
‘Second’ we see that it is ‘n-d’.
So the last two letters of ‘second’, ‘n-d’.
‘Two’, we have to put ‘n-d’.
So now this is “second”.
The last two letters, ‘r-d’.
So, we have to go over here…’r-d’.
Ok, so you can see most of them use the ‘t-h’.
Just the “first, second, third”, ‘s-t’, ‘n-d’, ‘r-d’.
Look at these numbers over here.
I wrote some numbers, circled in red.
Ok, this is a common mistake.
This is obviously wrong becuase ‘three’ only has ‘r-d’.
You have to use these two letters.
Again, that is impossible cause “sixth”, “sixth” must have ‘t-h’.
So you have to be very careful writing these numbers.
They must use the last two letters.
Let’s worry about pronunciation right now.
Pronunciation can be a little bit difficult, also.
So let’s go through the list.
And you should watch me and listen carefully.
Ok, when I say “Fourth”, look at my tongue.
So, the ‘t-h’, your tongue should be coming out.
Let’s do the ‘t-h’ again.
So these are the first ten.
Let’s move on to some bigger numbers.
Alright, let’s continue with our ordinal numbers.
The next, after ‘tenth’, is “eleventh”.
We see the ‘t-h’ and the ‘t-h’ goes there.
I did not write the next ones here, but I will say them, so listen carefully.
Alright, let’s look at ‘twentieth’.
‘TWenty’ has a ‘y’, but you can they take out the ‘y’, they put in an ‘i-e-t-h’.
And we would write it with a ‘t-h’.
And we would write ‘twenty-one’ with the ‘s-t’.
And again, I did not write the next ones here, but listen carefully.
And again, like ‘twentieth’, ‘thirtieth’, no ‘y’ just ‘i-e-t-h’.
And I also want to talk about the pronunciation of “twelfth”.
‘Twelfth’ is very difficult to pronounce.
If you look at it here, you see that ‘f’.
And many students try to pronounce it with the ‘f’.
But what is actually more common, even with native speakers, is we don’t pronounce the ‘f’.
So, for example, if we cut that ‘f’.
Imagine it is not there.
Ok, that’s a little bit easier.
You can just say “Twelth”.
Ok, be sure to pronounce those correctly.
Let’s move on to some bigger number.
Ok, so I am sorry because I cannot write every ordinal number.
I cannot explain every number.
So, you’re going to have to practice guessing what is the ordinal number.
And I put some numbers here and we’re going to guess whether they use ‘s-t’, ‘n-d’, ‘r-d’ or ‘t-h’.
We only have four choices.
The first number is “fifty-six”.
So if we want to change that to an ordinal number, we have to choose one of these.
Well, we know ‘six’ is…’six’ is ‘t-h’.
And it’s going to be the same.
So, I’m going to write a ‘t-h’ there.
Well, what’s the ordinal number?
This is going to be like ‘twenty-first’ and ‘thirty-first’.
This is going to be “ninety-first”.
Alright, the next one is “one hundred”.
So, we have to choose one of these.
Ok, it’s going to be the ‘t-h’.
We have to choose one.
Ok, it’s going to be the same.
So again, I’m sorry I can’t teach every number.
Your going to have to learn how to guess correctly.
Ahhh, we’re going to do a quick test…right now.
So what I want you to do in the test is write down or think about what the correct ordinal number is.
Again, just write in the ordinal number.
Alright, so you should’ve written ‘twentieth’.
Alright, so you should’ve written ‘first’.
Ok, so you should write ‘twenty-first’.
Ok, you should write ‘seventeenth’.
Ok, so you should’ve written ‘twelfth’.
Ok, I hope you did well on that little test.
Now, ordinal numbers are important.
Again, they’re used for ranking and they’re used for the calendar, and also anniversaries.
Also, sometimes, you see book volumes use ordinal numbers.
Ok, so you should know ordinal numbers.
Now, it takes a lot of practice and self-study to truly truly master ordnial numbers.
I hope this video helped you understand them a little bit better.