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If the answer expected is It is an amazing car, then the question would be How is the car?

If the answer expected is I got my red car then the question would be something like Which colour car did you get? or Which car did you get?

BUT if the expected answer is This is my third car / This is my ninteenth birthday, then what would the question be precisely? How would you frame it, if possible?

To clarify the importance of the precise question: So far, the only way I know how to elicit the above mentioned answer would be to hint it in the question itself, like Is this you twentieth birthday?, and then they would answer No, this is my ninteenth birthday.

LWTBP
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  • Good question, but alas, it is one that has been asked many a time before... – oerkelens Jul 25 '14 at 09:30
  • Actually, this was shown as the first related question, even more overwhelming than the one @AndrewLeach linked: http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/95184/how-would-you-phrase-questions-that-require-an-interrogative-ordinal-which-is?rq=1 – oerkelens Jul 25 '14 at 09:31
  • A colloquial expression for this purpose seems to be the word "manieth", which isn't a proper English word though. – painfulenglish Jul 25 '14 at 09:34
  • @oerkelens Apologies. I need to up my duplicate finding game! – LWTBP Jul 25 '14 at 09:34
  • @oerkelens The one I chose is the top Related question in my sidebar. Odd. It's also the ninth most-chosen target for dupes. – Andrew Leach Jul 25 '14 at 09:35

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