ninety-seventh

English

English ordinal numbers

<  96th	97th	98th  >
Cardinal : ninety-seven     Ordinal : ninety-seventh

Adjective

ninety-seventh

1. The ordinal form of the number ninety-seven, describing a person or thing in position number 97 of a sequence.

   The answer appears on the ninety-seventh page of the book.

   She finished ninety-seventh 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

• 97th, 97^th

Translations

ordinal form of ninety-seven

• Afrikaans: sewe-en-negentigste (af)
• Esperanto: naŭdek-sepa
• Finnish: yhdeksäskymmenesseitsemäs
• French: quatre-vingt-dix-septième (fr) m or f
• Hungarian: kilencvenhetedik (hu)
• Malayalam: തൊണ്ണൂറ്റേഴാം (toṇṇūṟṟēḻāṁ), തൊണ്ണൂറ്റിയേഴാം (toṇṇūṟṟiyēḻāṁ)
• Polish: dziewięćdziesiąty siódmy
• Portuguese: nonagésimo sétimo
• Russian: девяно́сто седьмо́й (devjanósto sedʹmój)
• Turkish: doksan yedinci
• Ukrainian: дев'яно́сто сьо́мий (devʺjanósto sʹómyj)

Noun

ninety-seventh (plural ninety-sevenths)

1. One of ninety-seven equal parts of a whole.

   A ninety-seventh of 1940 is 20.