diff --git a/content/adjective_ordinal_number.rst b/content/adjective_ordinal_number.rst index 758fbdc..d37abff 100644 --- a/content/adjective_ordinal_number.rst +++ b/content/adjective_ordinal_number.rst @@ -8,14 +8,14 @@ Adjective Ordinal Number Summary ------- -In Biblical Hebrew, ordinal numbers are used to express a rank or order +In Biblical Aramaic, ordinal numbers are used to express a rank or order of items in a series (first, second, third, etc.) or to express a part of a whole (a third, a fourth, a fifth, etc.). Article ------- -Biblical Hebrew contains two sets of numbers: :ref:`cardinal numbers` +Biblical Aramaic contains two sets of numbers: :ref:`cardinal numbers` and ordinal numbers. Ordinal numbers describe either a numeric rank/order or a portion of a whole. "First" through "tenth" have unique ordinal forms, but the cardinal forms are used from "eleventh" and @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ but they may not always have the same grammatical form (gender, number, .. csv-table:: "First" through "Tenth" Paradigm - word,Hebrew,Transliteration,Gloss + word,Aramaic,Transliteration,Gloss masculine,רִאֹשׁוֹן,ri'oshon,first masculine,שֵׁנִי,sheni,second masculine,שְׁלִישִׁי,shelishi,third