A196278 Number of letters in the French ordinal numbers.

7, 8, 9, 9, 9, 7, 8, 8, 8, 7, 7, 8, 9, 11, 9, 8, 11, 11, 11, 9, 13, 13, 14, 14, 14, 12, 13, 13, 13, 9, 14, 14, 15, 15, 15, 13, 14, 14, 14, 11, 16, 16, 17, 17, 17, 15, 16, 16, 16, 12, 17, 17, 18, 18, 18, 16, 17, 17, 17, 11, 16, 16, 17, 17, 17, 15, 16, 16, 16, 15, 17, 16, 17, 19, 17, 16, 19, 19, 19, 15, 17, 19, 20, 20, 20, 18, 19, 19, 19, 18, 18, 19, 20, 22, 20, 19, 22, 22, 22, 8

Offset: 1

Author

M. F. Hasler, Sep 30 2011

Keywords

• nonn
• word

Comments

The first term corresponds to the masculine form "premier"; it could as well have been chosen to be "première". In contrast to A006969, hyphens and spaces are not counted. First differs at n = 17, where the hyphen in "dix-septième" is not counted here, but there.

It would be nice to have short programs in various languages to spell out the n-th ordinal number in French.

Examples

			a(1) = #"premier" = 7, a(2) = #"deuxième" = 8, a(3) = #"troisième" = 9,
a(4) = #"quatrième" = 9, a(5) = #"cinquième" = 9, a(6) = #"sixième" = 7, etc.
a(80) = 15, the number of letters in "quatre-vingtième". - _M. F. Hasler_, Aug 08 2021
		

Links

• Team of "ParisByPod", French ordinal numbers, 1 to 100, as of Sept. 2011.
• Wiktionnaire, Ordinaux en français, Accord orthographique en nombre, quatre-vingtième.
• Yale University Library, The names of numbers in French, German, Italian, and Spanish.

Crossrefs

Cf. A006969, A080519, A167507.

Cf. A006944 (in American English).