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How to ask a question to get an ordinal number answer [duplicate]

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How to ask about ordinal place of an offspring? [duplicate]

Here is the question: I want to know what is the ordinal place of someone in her family. For example, I'd say: I'm the second child of my parents. and afterwards, I'd like to ask something along ...
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How manyth son to your father? [duplicate]

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How manieth as an ordinal number question [duplicate]

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"manieth", is it acknowledged? [duplicate]

I believed that there is no question word in English for making a question when you want know the X in sentences like "Barack Obama is the Xth president of the US.". *Question words are words like "...
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Where do you come in your family? [duplicate]

I am looking for some common questions used to ask about a person's birth order in their family (to ask if he/she is first, second, third, etc. child). Do the following questions sound natural? Where ...
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What will be the question for "he is my second son" [duplicate]

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How can I ask a question with the answer "I'm eating the fourth apple"? [duplicate]

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How do you convert the sentence "George Washington was the first president." to a question? [duplicate]

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Trump is the 45th US president. How do you ask a question to get this number? [duplicate]

Trump is the 45th US president. How do you ask a question to get this number?
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How to frame a question to get answer about the turn that somebody has taken in doing something? [duplicate]

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question to ask about ordinal numbers [duplicate]

A:I was the 1st one in queue/I was the second player B:How many? Is what B said correct? Or what is the question for ordinal numbers? The question from B is not asking how many people in the queue was,...
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How do you say this in English? [duplicate]

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Interrogative form of a sentence [duplicate]

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How to ask "nth time" of something [duplicate]

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