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# twelfth

«twelfth» in Mova's school dictionary: **Twelfth comes after eleventh in order: number 12** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

number, adjective, noun (twelfth, twelfths)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Twelfth comes after eleventh in order: number 12. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/twelfth/#m1)

2) A twelfth is one of twelve equal parts of a whole, written 1/12. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/twelfth/#m2)

3) A month is one twelfth of a year. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/twelfth/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

Maths: an order position or a fraction (one twelfth); one twelfth of a total means divide by 12. Everyday: twelfth grade (the last year of school in the US), Twelfth Night (a play by Shakespeare).

### examples

- He finished twelfth in the race. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/twelfth/#x1)
- One twelfth of the class was absent. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/twelfth/#x2)
- The twelfth page has a picture. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/twelfth/#x3)
- A month is one twelfth of a year. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/twelfth/#x4)
- One twelfth of 36 is 3. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/twelfth/#x5)
- She is in twelfth grade. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/twelfth/#x6)
- The pizza was cut into twelfths. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/twelfth/#x7)
- "Then you shall be the twelfth," said the old Chinaman. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/twelfth/#x8)

### note

Written 12th; note the f: twelve → twelfth. As a fraction: one twelfth of a total means divide by 12. As an order word it is a position, not an amount. Trap: do not write «twelth».

### In the corpora

- [On the twelfth day Ahira the son of Enan, prince of the children of Naphtali:](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.336/)
- [the eleventh to Eliashib, the twelfth to Jakim;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/1CH.853/)
- [The twelfth to Hashabiah, his sons and his brethren, twelve;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/1CH.893/)
- [The twelfth captain for the twelfth month was Heldai the Netophathite, of Othniel; and in his course were twenty and four thousand.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/1CH.954/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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