ORDINAL NUMBERS

When people or things are in order, we use ordinal numbers to say their position
in the series:

The third computer is older than the other three.

We use ordinal numbers to say the days of a month too:
We write:

We celebrate Saint Patricks Day on 17th March.

We say:

We celebrate Saint Patricks Day on the seventeenth of March.

Ordinal numbers start with first, second, and third, and their short forms are 1st,
2nd, and 3rd. The rest end in -th (we pronounce it //, like the z in the Spanish
zapato) but be careful with the spelling of some numbers! (fifth, twelfth,
twentieth)
1st

first

11th

eleventh

2nd

second

12th

twelfth

3rd

third

13th

4th

fourth

5th

21st

twenty-first

40th

fortieth

22nd twenty-second

50th

fiftieth

thirteenth

23rd

twenty-third

60th

sixtieth

14th

fourteenth

24th

twenty-fourth

70th

seventieth

fifth

15th

fifteenth

25th

twenty-fifth

80th

eightieth

6th

sixth

16th

sixteenth

26th

twenty-sixth

90th

ninetieth

7th

seventh

17th

seventeenth

8th

eighth

18th

eighteenth

28th

twenty-eighth

9th

ninth

19th

nineteenth

29th

twenty-ninth

10th

tenth

20th

twentieth

30th

thirtieth

27th twenty-seventh

100th

a hundredth
one hundredth

Some more help:

o The only numbers with final 1, 2 or 3 that dont end with first, -second or third are eleventh, twelfth and thirteenth: thirty-second, ninety-first, etc.
o For every cardinal number ending in -ty (forty, ninety, twenty, etc.), its
ordinal number ends in -tieth: (fortieth, ninetieth, twentieth, etc.).
o Also, be careful with thirteenth/thirtieth, fourteenth/fortieth, and
fifteenth/fiftieth.
o After twentieth, we say [cardinal number] + [ordinal number] if the number
doesnt end in 0: 34 thirty-fourth; 72 seventy-second; 58 fifty-eighth,
etc.