On Wed, Oct 4, 2017 at 11:46 AM, qurgh lungqIj <qurgh@wizage.net> wrote:

On Wed, Oct 4, 2017 at 11:41 AM, Lawrence M. Schoen <klingonguy@gmail.com> wrote:

This makes me wonder how you'd respond to adding the suffix after the ordinal?

Thus, my third ship - Duj wejDIchwIj

You don't posses the "third" though, you posses the ship.

DujwIj wejDIch - Out of the collection of ships that are mine, the third one is the topic

You make a compelling argument. And I confess I just popped into the middle of this thread so I'll yield to your assertion that "the third one is the topic"

And yet, as has been pointed out, a number (in this case, an ordinal number) is a noun. So I have to disagree with your point that you "don't posses [sic] the "third" though, you posses [sic] the ship."

Duj wejDIchwIj - there are many ships, but third one is mine.