Value ‘First’, ‘second’, or more are suppletive, the others are synchronically derived from cardinal numerals

Language:
Bahamian Creole
Parameter:
Ordinal numerals

Examples

  1. My daughter is thirty-four. – [... She's the oldest?] – No, that's the second.
    [...]
    [...]
    that's
    dem.3sg.cop
    the
    art
    second.
    num
    [...] that's my second (daughter).
  2. Yeah, because the Lord - to Ecclesiast - 'clesiastes, the third chapter - which verse - three and four [...].
    [...]
    [...]
    the
    art
    third
    num
    chapter
    chapter
    -
     
    which
    which
    verse
    verse
    -
     
    three
    num
    and
    and
    four
    num
    [...].
    [...]
    [...] the third chapter - which verse - three and four [...].
  3. That's the first time I saw a plane - like that.
    That's
    that.cop.3sg.pst
    the
    art
    first
    num
    time
    time
    Ø
    that
    I
    1sg.sbj
    saw
    see.pfv
    a
    art
    plane
    plane
    [...]
    [...]
    That was the first time that I saw a plane [...]