No. 95 in Portuguese
sexta
"sexta" means "Friday."
In a sentence
Na sexta, temos um encontro marcado.
On Friday, we have a scheduled meeting.
Here, 'sexta' represents 'sexta-feira', which means 'Friday', indicating the day of the week.
Ela terminou a corrida em sexta posição.
She finished the race in sixth place.
In this case, 'sexta' is used as an ordinal number, meaning 'sixth' when referring to a feminine noun.
A semana escolar terminou na sexta aula do dia.
The school week ended in the sixth class of the day.
Here, 'sexta' is also an ordinal number, meaning 'sixth', and it matches the gender of 'aula', which is feminine.
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