No. 222 in Finnish
toiseksi
"Toiseksi" means "secondly" or "as the second" in English.
In a sentence
Ensiksi siivotaan keittiö, ja toiseksi järjestetään olohuone.
First, we clean the kitchen, and secondly, we tidy up the living room.
Here, 'toiseksi' functions as an ordinal adverb indicating sequence, meaning 'secondly'.
Hän tuli juoksukilpailussa toiseksi.
He came second in the running competition.
In this sentence, 'toiseksi' is used to indicate ranking or position, meaning 'second'.
Joukkue vaati, että päätös tehdään toiseksi viimeisen kohdan mukaan.
The team requested that the decision be made according to the second-to-last point.
Here, 'toiseksi' is part of the phrase 'toiseksi viimeinen,' meaning 'second-to-last,' describing an ordinal number.
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