VocabularyHSK 3 · core

第

dì

ordinal prefix

Part of speech · prefix (ordinal)

Pattern visualization

no decomposition available

Examples

  1. 我是第一名。
    I'm number one.
  2. 第三个问题。
    The third question.

Collocations

第一第二第三

Mnemonic

第 dì — ordinal prefix. 第 + numeral = ordinal ("the Nth"). Cognate of Korean je / Japanese 第 dai (第一 dai-ichi "first").

Quick check

  1. "Third place"?

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