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# nd

«nd» in Mova's school dictionary: **-nd: the letters written after a number that ends in 2…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

abbreviation / fragment (-nd, as in 2nd; also ND, n.d.)

### meaning for a pupil

1) -nd: the letters written after a number that ends in 2 (except 12) to make an ordinal number: 2nd = second, 22nd = twenty-second, 102nd. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nd/#m1)

2) ND: short for North Dakota, a state in the USA. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nd/#m2)

3) n.d.: «no date» in a list of books or sources. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nd/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In maths and English, ordinal numbers show position or order: 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th. «nd» goes after numbers ending in 2 because «second» ends in «-nd». Used in races (came 2nd), floors (2nd floor), and lists.

### examples

- She came 2nd in the race. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nd/#x1)
- Our classroom is on the 2nd floor. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nd/#x2)
- Write the ordinals: 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nd/#x3)
- He was the 22nd person in the queue. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nd/#x4)
- Bismarck is the capital of ND, North Dakota. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nd/#x5)
- The 2nd step in the problem is to add the two totals. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nd/#x6)
- Source.--Henderson's Folk-Lore of Northern Counties, 2nd edition, published by the Folk-Lore Society, pp. 266-7. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nd/#x7)

### note

Rule: 1st, 2nd, 3rd for numbers ending in 1, 2, 3 — but 11th, 12th, 13th use «th». So 12th, not «12nd»; 32nd, 42nd. Do not write «2th» or «2st».

### Trees and pragmatics

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