N4 grammar

〜番目

Which one in the order

Formation

番目 turns a number into a position in a sequence: the second one, the fifth street. It attaches to the plain number and can be followed by の and a noun. Other counters take 目 the same way.

Examples

〜番目 is marked in each sentence. Tap any word for its dictionary entry.

  1. She left out the fourth question on the examination.

  2. Go two blocks and turn left.

  3. I've made a first draft of my thesis.

  4. The third in the series was a level above the rest.

  5. The fifth volume of this set is missing.

The explanation is ours, written for this site. Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), each machine-checked to actually contain the pattern. Furigana is generated automatically, so a rare reading may be imperfect.