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thirty-ninth

thirty-ninth

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The position that comes after thirty-eight and before forty
  • adjective
  • /ˈθɜrtiˌnaɪnθ/
translation icon : trigésimo noveno
  • Our team celebrated after winning the thirty-ninth game of the season.
  • thirty-ninth floor

Examples

  • She finished in thirty-ninth place in the marathon.

  • So it came as a shock when Max went completely wacko the day after his thirty-ninth birthday.

    Fiction book (2000)

  • They go up in the elevator to the thirty-ninth floor and step into his living room, which is bigger than Puree's apartment.

    Fiction book (1992)

  • Though most observers judged his presidency a failure in the years immediately following Carter's ignominious defeat in 1980, revisionist studies now hail the thirty-ninth U.S. president for his far-sighted and misunderstood leadership.

    Academic text (2006)

  • The thirty-ninth chapter of the book introduces a new character.

Synonyms

39th
vsthirty-ninth
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A position that comes after the thirty-eighth and before the fortieth in a series

is the same meaning but written in full words instead of digits

Surface Forms

thirty-ninth positive

Morphology

thirty-ninth = thirty-nine (transparent) = thirty + nine + th

The ordinal is formed from the compound cardinal 'thirty-nine' by adding the regular ordinal suffix '-th', a process predictable to learners who know cardinals and ordinals.

Etymology

Thirty-ninth is made from thirty ('30') and ninth, which comes from nine ('9'). So thirty-ninth means 'the 39th in order' and is used to show a position like a floor, a place in a race, or a chapter number.