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# fifth

«fifth» in Mova's school dictionary: **number 5 in order** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective, noun (fifth, 5th; a fifth, fifths)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Fifth means number 5 in order. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fifth/#m1)

2) A fifth is one of 5 equal parts, written 1/5. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fifth/#m2)

3) Fifth grade (in the USA) is the school year for children about 10 to 11 years old. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fifth/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

maths: a place in order (4 come before), or the fraction 1/5 (divide by 5); 2/5 means two of those parts; school: fifth grade; everyday life: the fifth floor; music: a fifth is a kind of gap between notes

### examples

- She finished fifth in the race. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fifth/#x1)
- One fifth of 20 is 4. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fifth/#x2)
- He is in fifth grade. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fifth/#x3)
- Two fifths of the class are boys. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fifth/#x4)
- We live on the fifth floor. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fifth/#x5)
- Today is the fifth day of camp. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fifth/#x6)
- Cut the cake into fifths. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fifth/#x7)
- Sleep sweetly, sleep sweetly, it is your three-hundred-and-sixty-fifth night. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fifth/#x8)

### note

As a fraction: divide by 5. As order: 4 come before. Trap: «a fifth of» is a part, not 5. Say the «fth» clearly: fifth.

### In the corpora

- [The Amazon carries about a fifth of all the river water that flows into the world's seas.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/155-the-amazon-river/14/)
- [A spider monkey's tail grips a branch like a fifth hand, with ridged bare skin on the tip like a fingerprint.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/156-the-amazon-canopy/12/)
- [Babies spend about half their sleep in REM, grown-ups only about a fifth.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/363-sleep-and-dreams-in-people/8/)
- [Only about one fifth of the air is oxygen; most of the rest is nitrogen, which we breathe in and out unchanged.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/2-elements-and-the-periodic-table/9/)
- [A real result, like fifth place, is worth more than a fake first.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/434-the-friend-with-a-ps6/34/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «fifth» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fifth/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.