thirty-eighth

English

English ordinal numbers

<  37th	38th	39th  >
Cardinal : thirty-eight     Ordinal : thirty-eighth

Adjective

thirty-eighth

1. The ordinal form of the number thirty-eight, describing a person or thing in position number 38 of a sequence.

   The answer appears on the thirty-eighth page of the book.

   She finished thirty-eighth in the race.

Usage notes

English ordinal numbers may function as either an adjective or as a noun, and almost never appear in the plural.

Abbreviations

• 38th, 38^th

Translations

ordinal form of thirty-eight

• Esperanto: tridek-oka
• Finnish: kolmaskymmeneskahdeksas
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• French: trente-huitième
• Hungarian: harmincnyolcadik (hu)
• Malayalam: മുപ്പത്തെട്ടാം (muppatteṭṭāṁ), മുപ്പത്തിയെട്ടാം (muppattiyeṭṭāṁ)

Noun

thirty-eighth (plural thirty-eighths)

1. One of thirty-eight equal parts of a whole.

   A thirty-eighth of 760 is 20.