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Norwegian Ordinal Words

1. → første, 2. → andre/annen, with proper inflection

Convert integers into Norwegian Bokmål ordinals, with the irregular første and andre forms, the -ende suffix from thirteen up, and compound tens such as tjueførste. Runs entirely in your browser.

What are the irregular Norwegian ordinals?

The low ordinals do not follow a simple pattern: 1. første, 2. andre, 3. tredje, 4. fjerde, 5. femte, 6. sjette. From these you build compounds, so they are worth memorising. The archaic annen is an older variant of andre.

Norwegian ordinals start with several irregular forms and then settle into a regular -ende pattern. This tool produces the correct Bokmål ordinal for any position, including the spaceless compound tens.

How it works

The number is mapped through three layers:

  1. Positions 1–12 use a fixed irregular table: første, andre, tredje, fjerde, femte, sjette, sjuende, åttende, niende, tiende, ellevte, tolvte.
  2. From 13 the ordinal is the cardinal stem plus -ende: trettende, fjortende, femtende.
  3. Compound numbers attach the unit ordinal to the cardinal tens stem, so 21st becomes tjue + første = tjueførste.

Hundreds and thousands add hundrede/tusende with an og before the final group.

Example and notes

2 gives andre, 23 gives tjuetredje, and 100 gives hundrede. Note the irregular low forms: get første, andre and tredje right and the rest of the system follows predictably. The archaic form annen is a historical variant of andre and is not produced here.