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Oct 30, 2017 · Regarding Romanian I confirm that the terms Nord/Sud/Est/Vest are neologisms, most probably imported from French (or German) in XIX century. The historical Romanian names for these cardinal points are: nord = ' miazănoapte ' < Lat. mediam noctem. sud = ' miazăzi ' < Lat. mediam diem. est = ' răsărit ' (literally meaning 'rise' in the ...
Oct 22, 2007 · Swedish (Göteborg) Oct 22, 2007. #4. mariaper said: You use the words "syd, väst, ost/öst, nord" together, for example. "sydväst, (southwest), nordost (northeast). In other situations it is more common to use söder, norr, väster, öster. I'm a native Swede. I know that when combining mutliple directions, one uses the "short" forms.
Nov 21, 2009 · Nov 21, 2009. #2. You choose in or on according to context. One says, on the coast, and therefore, on the east coast. The direction does not affect the preposition. You can use "in" if describing an interior - eg in the East, or in the Northern wastes. D.
Feb 19, 2009 · Un número arábigo es un símbolo. Un número cardinal es un concepto, el concepto de una cantidad de cosas enteras. Además de los cardinales que pueden escribirse con arábigos o romanos, hay números cardinales como lo que se llama "alef cero", el número cardinal de todos los números romanos (incluso p.ej. MCMLXXVIII).
Aug 11, 2014 · capitalization of cardinal directions capitalising north-west, north-east etc? and this thread on hyphenation: cardinal points: hyphen, space or closed? They are generally fused in AmE. BrE allows for this, as well as the hyphenated and spaced versions. I suspect that the hyphenated version is the most common. The Anglican Province of South ...
Jul 7, 2018 · The exception might be if the teacher is worried that the student might not understand the numbers -- if the student is a language learners, for instance. In that case the teacher might say the cardinal forms the second time to be sure that the student understands. (The vowel in '-five' is clearer than the vowel in '-fifth'.)
Dec 25, 2007 · Dec 25, 2007. #2. First of all, that's not Italian. The most similar word to that one is boccato which in fact is an adjective and means "with a big mouth". Still, that expression is also used in Spanish and it is supposed to mean Bocado (hence the confusion, remember that Lorca is Spanish) de cardenales. That is, something exquisite, that ...
Dec 12, 2007 · Dec 12, 2007. #3. Hello, Cardinal means of primary importance, i.e. these are the main obligations, the most important obligations. Hope it helps!
Jun 11, 2014 · English - USA. Jun 11, 2014. #3. According to Wikipedia, the primary, secondary, etc series is another ordinal series, like first, second, etc but more Latinate and often used for importance, precedence, or sequence of dependence. Look in the wikipedia article on Ordinal number (linguistics).
Jan 10, 2013 · Jan 11, 2013. #13. The second time = determiner (definite article "the") + adjective (ordinal number "second") + noun ("time")--that's how I see it in my brain. A First Lady is an unofficial title used in the USA. Not everyone gets a second chance. In my opinion, the ordinals in the above examples are adjectives.
