Ordinal numbers (“first, second, third, etc”) are made by adding a suffix to the cardinal number.
The suffix is a variant of -inci congruent with Turkish vowel harmony:
1st | birinci | beer-EEN-jee |
2nd | ikinci | ee-KEEN-jee |
3rd | üçüncü | ur-CHURN-jur |
10th | onuncu | ohn-OON-joo |
20th | yirminci | yeer-MEEN-jee |
30th | otuzuncu | oh-tooz-OON-joo |
100th | yüzüncü | yurz-URN-jur |
157th | yüzelliyedinci | yurz-eh-lee-yeh-DEEN-jee |
1000th | bininci | been-EEN-jee |
1,000,000th | milyonuncu | meel-yohn-OON-joo |
Turkish Cardinal Numbers |