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THE NUMERALS.
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ti similarly replaces the tio in the higher numerals; as, tretti, fyrti, femti, etc.
Between 20 and 100 the lesser number precedes the greater when och, 'and,' is used; as, en och sextio, 61, but when och, 'and,' is not used, the larger number precedes the smaller; as, trettio fem, 35.
The ordinal numbers (ordingstal) are: —
1st. förste (a). 16th. sextonde. 2nd. andre (a). 17th. sjuttonde. 3rd. tredje. 18th. adertonde. 4th. fjerde. 19th. nittonde. 5th. femte. 20th. tjugonde. 6th. sjette. 30th. trettionde. 7th. sjunde. 40th. fyrtionde. 8th. åttonde. 50th. femtionde. 9th. nionde. 60th. sextionde. 10th. tionde. 70th. sjuttionde. 11th. elfte. 80th. åttionde. 12th. tolfte. 90th. nittionde. 13th. trettonde. 100th. hundrade. 14th. fjortonde. 1000th. tusende. 15th. femtonde.
Excepting förste (a) and andre (a), the ordinal numbers are indeclinable. In regard to order of precedence, they follow the same rule as the cardinal numbers; as, han är på första och femtionde året, 'he is in his fifty-first year;' hon kom den tjugu-första, 'she came on the twenty-first.'
