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39th

39th

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A position that comes after the thirty-eighth and before the fortieth in a series
  • adjective
translation icon : trigésimo noveno
  • We're going to set up a perimeter all the way down to 39th Street.
  • the 39th percentile

Examples

  • Shirley Weber won the 79th District State Assembly, and Marty Block won the 39th State Senate District.

    Blog text (1)

  • A general view of the audience during the 39th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards.

    Blog text (9)

  • I found out on my 39th birthday, and I lost it the same day.

    Predator: Badlands (2025)

  • I want you to drop me off at 39th Street.

    State of Grace (1990)

  • I got the news that I was sick on the afternoon of my 39th birthday.

    Academic text (2007)

  • The Sox first played at South Side Park, which was located at 39th and Princeton.

    Blog text (20)

  • The Medinah Country Club is the site of the 39th Ryder Cup.

    Blog text (23)

  • The Joint Committee on Reconstruction of the 39th Congress began drafting what would become the Fourteenth Amendment in January 1866.

    Academic text (1997)

  • Welcome to Celebration City, USA, Shelbyville Tennessee, for the 39th annual Tennessee Walkin' Horse Pageant and Celebration.

    Our Very Own (2005)

  • This year marks the 39th anniversary of the festival celebrating local culture.

Synonyms

thirty-ninth
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The position that comes after thirty-eight and before forty

is written as numerals showing the position in a sequence

Surface Forms

39th positive
thirty-ninth positive

Morphology

39th = 39 (transparent) = 39 + th

Standard ordinal formation: the ordinal suffix '-th' attached to the numeral '39' yields the adjective meaning 'thirty-ninth', which is straightforward for learners who know the number.

Etymology

39Th is simply the number thirty-nine with the ending -th, which turns a number into an order or position. So 39th means 'in position thirty-nine', coming after the thirty-eighth and before the fortieth.