twenty-ninth
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- adjective
- /ˈtwɛntiˌnaɪnθ/
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vigésimo noveno
- The official verdict came in on the twenty-ninth of November.
- twenty-ninth birthday
- twenty-ninth day
- twenty-ninth of November
Examples
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A week before my twenty-ninth birthday, I told Eli that I wasn't sure I wanted to celebrate.
Blog text (33) -
I celebrated my twenty-ninth birthday shortly after leaving the nursing home, and I'll proudly celebrate my thirtieth this year.
Fiction book (1992) -
I wish you a happy twenty-ninth birthday.
Fiction book (1998) -
Daddy, did you know that Warren G. Harding was the twenty-ninth President of the United States?
Fiction book (2001) -
On the afternoon of October twenty-ninth, he was laid to rest in the marble vault in the cemetery high above Oneida Square.
Fiction book (1993) -
Though a noteworthy increase, it was less than 1 percent of the national output, which was valued at $131,423,517 and ranked Georgia twenty-ninth nationally.
Academic text (2015) -
I wish you a happy twenty-ninth birthday.
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On the day of her twenty-ninth birthday, she ran a half marathon in Miami.
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The whole gang was at the Copa celebrating Billy's twenty-ninth birthday.
Synonyms
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Number twenty-nine in a list that comes after the twenty-eighth
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Surface Forms
Morphology
twenty-ninth = twenty-nine (transparent) = twenty + nine + th
Formed by adding the regular ordinal suffix '-th' to the cardinal 'twenty-nine', a standard and clearly derivable process.
Etymology
Twenty-ninth is formed from twenty and ninth; ninth is simply nine plus the ending -th, which marks a position 'in order'. So twenty-ninth means 'number 29' or 'coming after the twenty-eighth'.