quarantanovesimo

forty-ninth

adjective kwah-rahn-tah-noh-VEH-zee-moh Rare

Usage Note

Quarantanovesimo is the ordinal number for 49th. Like all Italian ordinals, it agrees in gender and number: quarantanovesimo / quarantanovesima / quarantanovesimi / quarantanovesime. In practice the abbreviated form 49° (or 49ª) is used in writing.

Examples

"È la quarantanovesima edizione del festival."

Natural Translation

It is the forty-ninth edition of the festival.

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