Obviously, you can also use feminine, neuter and plural endings. They differ from cardinal numbers, which represent quantity that you count. An ordinal number is a number or word that tells the position of something in a list, such as 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th etc. Just as in English, there are exceptions to every rule, especially the one about which way your palm faces. When it comes to tens, they follow the rules above with some nuances. Ordinal numbers in American Sign Language (ASL) Ordinal numbers are words representing position or rank in a sequential order. When youre indicating quantity and counting things, sign the numbers 1 through 5 and 11 through 15 with your palm facing you, and the numbers 6 through 10 and 16 through 19 with your palm facing the person to whom youre signing. However, there is a number of exceptions from this rule… Tens showed differences in the acquisition and use of ordinal numbers corresponding to linguistic differences in ordinal names in their native languages. Elementary school children in China and the U.S. Another important rule is that you must use a hyphen between compound numbers (numbers in twos). Twenty armchairs – twentieth armchair (neuter) Ordinal number names are typically learned later than cardinal names, but languages also differ in the regularity with which they form these names. To form a Russian ordinal numeral starting from 10, in most cases you will need only to remove the last -Ь and add another ending depending on the gender and number: word-forming element making ordinal numbers (fourth, tenth, etc.), Old English -ða, from Proto-Germanic -tha- (cognates: Gothic -da, -ta, Old High German -do, -to, Old Norse -di, -ti), from PIE -to-, also -eto-, -oto-, suffix forming adjectives 'marking the accomplishment of the notion of the base' Watkins.

Ordinal numbers in different languages