No. 9,458 in French

douzième

Twelfth.

In a sentence

Voici ma douzième leçon de français.
Here is my twelfth French lesson.
The term 'douzième' indicates ordinal usage, specifying the sequence number in a series.
Le joueur a marqué un but pour la douzième fois cette saison.
The player scored a goal for the twelfth time this season.
Here 'douzième' represents an ordinal number showing the iteration in context, describing how many times an event occurred.
Sur les douze participants, il est arrivé au douzième rang.
Among the twelve participants, he ranked twelfth.
In this case, 'douzième' refers to ordinal ranking or position within a competition or among a group.

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