How to read dates in #english use ordinal numbers: 1st – first2nd – second3rd – third4th – fourth5th – fifth6th – sixth7th – seventh8th – eighth9th – ninth10th – tenth11th – eleventh12th – twelfth13th – thirteenth14th – fourteenth15th – fifteenth16th – sixteenth17th – seventeenth18th – eighteenth19th – nineteenth20th – twentieth21st – twenty-first22nd – twenty-second23rd – twenty-third24th – twenty-fourth25th – twenty-fifth26th – twenty-sixth27th – twenty-seventh28th – twenty-eighth29th – twenty