"A doua fată."

Translation: The second girl.

[Pueblolaw]

I expected "girl" to take the definitive form, "fata" without the accent over the second "a." Why not?

[Luchtmens]

When adjectives and ordinal numbers (like first, second, third etc.) are placed before the noun they determine, the noun has no definite article.

A couple of examples: frumoasa fată (the beautiful girl), primul băiat (the first boy).

[paeonia001]

Because "a doua" means "the second". Using fata would add an extra "the".

[Pueblolaw]

Thank you!