ARABIC ORDINAL NUMBERS – Arabic Beginner Lesson- 45 – Learn Arabic Free Online

ARABIC ORDINAL NUMBERS – Arabic Beginner Lesson- 45 – Learn Arabic Free Online

Arabic Ordinal Numbers:

Ordinal numbers in Arabic are almost like the cardinal numbers, with some exceptions in the numbers from 1 to 10, and a slight difference in numbers from 11 and up.

Note that ordinal numbers in Arabic are somehow like adjectives, so they have to take the masculine, or feminine form. Please check the adjectives page for more information.

After 10 only the first number takes the feminine, for example 13^th is thaleth achar for masculine, and thalethata achar for feminine, achar stays the same, the first half “thaleth” which means 3^rd takes “a” in the feminine, and so does the rest of the ordinal number, except ten numbers like 20, 30, 40, 50, they look like cardinal numbers but they add “a” as a prefix for numbers starting with a consonant, for example: 70 = sab’un, 70^th = asab’un (for both masculine and feminine), and they add “al” for ten numbers starting with a vowel, like: 40= arba’un, 40^th = alarba’un.