OFFSET
1,1
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.
LINKS
Team of "ParisByPod", French ordinal numbers, 1 to 100, as of Sept. 2011.
Yale University Library, The names of numbers in French, German, Italian, and Spanish.
EXAMPLE
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
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn,word
AUTHOR
M. F. Hasler, Sep 30 2011
STATUS
approved