Best way to order dates?

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I want to say “on the eighth, I ate a cat.”

Pardon me, but I dont know how to say “I saved” or “I rescued” yet as my verb knowledge is know!

Would it be better to use 第～ or ～目?

第8日猫を食べました

vs.

8日目猫を食べました

Days in a month are naturally ordered from 1-30 (or 31, etc.) So isn’t using 第 OK, or even better?

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:thinking:

８日(ようか)は猫を食べました
You could even omit the は.

#日 means Xth day of the month (as long as you use the proper pronunciation), so you don’t need to add anything else.

#日目 would be like the Xth day, like “the second day of school”.

第#日 would be like Day X, “day 1; week 2; lesson 5; etc.”

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第8日

食(た)べ物(もの)がない。私(わたし)と猫(ねこ)だけだ。食(た)べ物(もの)が必要(ひつよう)だ。猫(ねこ)を食(た)べた。

Day 8:
There is no food. Just me and a cat. I need food. I ate the cat.

Sorry you inspired me

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I thought this topic was going to be another spambot escort site thing.

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Thought it was going to be a question about year-month-day or day-month-year. Or whatever.

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I thought it was going to be about ordering date fruits online.

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You beat me to it, bc same

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:joy::joy::joy: 皆さんが面白い

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Confused gaijin caught trying to order Japanese dates on anonymous gaijin website

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