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

1,1

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

Table of n, a(n) for n=1..100.

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.

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

Cf. A006969, A080519, A167507.

Cf. A006944 (in American English).

Sequence in context: A085676 A036793 A257394 * A006969 A195935 A363783

Adjacent sequences: A196275 A196276 A196277 * A196279 A196280 A196281

Keyword

nonn,word

Author

M. F. Hasler, Sep 30 2011

Status

approved