No. 405 in Turkish
birinci
"Birinci" means "first" in English.
In a sentence
Bu yarışta birinci oldum.
I became first in this race.
Here, 'birinci' means 'first' as an ordinal number indicating rank.
Okuduğum birinci kitap çok etkileyiciydi.
The first book I read was very impactful.
In this context, 'birinci' signifies the order of books, meaning the 'first' one.
Elektron, atomun birinci kabuğunda bulunabilir.
An electron can be found in the first shell of an atom.
Here, 'birinci' describes positional order as in the 'first' shell of an atom.
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