第十九

dìshíjiǔ
number #31,211

Meanings

  1. 1 nineteenth (19th)

Examples

Tā zài bǐsài zhōng dé le dì shíjiǔ míng.
He came nineteenth in the competition.
Zhè shì dì shíjiǔ jiè Àoyùnhuì.
This is the 19th Olympic Games.

Tips

grammar
Chinese makes ordinal numbers by prefixing to the cardinal: 十九 (19) → 第十九 (19th). The ordinal then takes a measure word like ("place/rank"), ("session/edition"), ("lesson"), ("chapter").
culture
In post-1949 Chinese politics, 第十九 implicitly refers to the 第十九中央委员会 / 第十九全国代表大会 — the 19th National Congress of the CCP, held in 2017. So in news and political contexts, 第十九 is often a shorthand reference to that era.

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