Re: Numbers

Jeffrey Henning <Jeffrey@...> wrote;
>
> In Dublex, ordinal numbers are typically adjectives:
>
> Von muccomunu u pena voc.   "I spoke five words."
>
> Cardinals take flight with the prefix ser-.  So:
>
> servan = first
> serduv = second
> serter = third, etc.
    You have this backwards.  What you call ordinals are cardinals and vice
versa.  Just remember that ORDinals require an ORDering.  If you have three
unordered objects you can say there are "three" of them, but you can't say
which one is the "third".  The exception to this is fractions, wherein the
denominator is expressed with an ordinal even though there is no ordering
involved (e.g. "two thirds").

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