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    Translation

    A nine-hundred-and-ninety-nine-thousandth (ordinal)

    Vocabulary

    • dziewięćset — nine hundred
    • dziewięćdziesiąt — ninety
    • dziewięć — nine
    • tysiąc — thousand
    • -nik — suffix forming ordinal nouns

    Grammar note

    Polish can make very long compound ordinal numbers as single words. 'Dziewięćsetdziewięćdziesięciodziewięciotysięcznik' means 999,000th. The suffix '-nik' makes the number into a noun for the item in that position.

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