fifty-ninth

English

English ordinal numbers

<  58th	59th	60th  >
Cardinal : fifty-nine     Ordinal : fifty-ninth

Adjective

fifty-ninth

1. The ordinal form of the number fifty-nine, describing a person or thing in position number 59 of a sequence.

   The answer appears on the fifty-ninth page of the book.

   She finished fifty-ninth in the race.

Usage notes

English ordinal numbers may function as either an adjective or as a noun, and almost never appear in the plural.

Synonyms

• 59th, 59^th

Translations

ordinal number

• Afrikaans: nege-en-vyftigste (af)
• Catalan: cinquanta-novè (ca)
• Esperanto: kvindek-naŭa
• Finnish: viideskymmenesyhdeksäs
• French: cinquante-neuvième
• Georgian: ორმოცდამეცხრამეტე (ormocdamecxrameṭe)
• German: neunundfünfzigste
• Hungarian: ötvenkilencedik (hu)
• Italian: cinquantanovesimo
• Malayalam: അമ്പത്തൊൻപതാം (ampattoṉpatāṁ)
• Portuguese: quinquagésimo nono
• Spanish: quincuagésimo noveno
• Turkish: elli dokuzuncu
• Ukrainian: п'ятдеся́т дев'я́тий (pʺjatdesját devʺjátyj)

Noun

fifty-ninth (plural fifty-ninths)

1. One of fifty-nine equal parts of a whole.

   A fifty-ninth of 1180 is 20.