The ordinals in Welsh are expressed by -ved; as saith=seven, seithved=seventh.
Now it is very evident, that, if the other ordinals be either comparatives or superlatives, they must be so, not as compared with one another, but as compared with their respective cardinals.
A plain distinction, however, will show that the case of the first two ordinals is peculiar.
The definitions of the finite ordinals can be expressed without use of the corresponding cardinals, so there is no essential priority of cardinals to ordinals.
Here also it can be seen that the science of the finite ordinals is a particular subdivision of the general theory of classes and relations.
Thus (writing ordinals in light type, and cardinals in heavy type) 9 comes after 4, and therefore 9 is greater than 4.
The Ordinals follow all the rules of adjectives as to case and number.
In cardinals and ordinals from thirteen to seventeen inclusive, the larger number sometimes comes first, and in cardinals #et# is sometimes used, though rarely in Cicero.
Ordinals are used to express the number of times: eruana lau nia lea go he went away the second time.
The first two ordinals differ in point of stem from the corresponding cardinals.
All subsequent ordinals ar derived from the cardinals and inflect like weak adjectivs (§ 132, n.
Cantor proved that the ordinal numbers (the question is of transfinite ordinal numbers, a new notion introduced by him) can be ranged in a linear series; that is to say that of two unequal ordinals one is always less than the other.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ordinals" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
