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One-Cardiologist6452
I am on my fifth day of jogging. How many days have i been jogging now? I don't think this is what I want to express because I can answer it like I have been jogging for 5 days. Am I on my fifth day of jogging? Also not how I want to ask it. My trials and errors, haha. 1. What day am I on in my jogging? 2. Which day am I on in my jogging? 3. What jogging day am I on? 4. What day am I on with my jogging? 5. Which day is it of my jogging? Not sure, in my native language, I can form a question stressing on asking the "fifth" . Every time I want to ask this type of question, I just get blurred. For example... I record a video daily, and I suddenly lose track of the day of recording while recording. How can I ask in a way that can be answered with " Oh yeah, this my fifth day of recording this"? What day of recording is this for me? ( Like this?) What day is this of my recording? ( Like this?) I just can't express the exact question I want. Maybe I'm just blindly translating it from my native language.

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defying-death•
“How many days have I been jogging for?” “How many days have I been recording these videos for?” If this didn’t answer your question please let me know
Borfknuckles•
I’m not 100% sure, but I think you’re looking for something like this: “How many days have you been jogging?” “How long have you been jogging for?” (*Answer: “I’ve been jogging for five days.”*) “How many days have you been recording this?” “How long have you been making daily videos?” (*Answer: “This is my fifth day of recording.”*)
-Walker22-•
How many days have I been jogging? -I have been jogging for five days. How many days have I been jogging now? -This is my fifth day of jogging. "This is my fifth day of jogging" could answer either of these question formats. It feels unnatural to ask this question in a way that seeks "fifth" in the answer.
RebelSoul5•
This is my fifth day of jogging — or fifth straight day (if you want to note the days have been consecutive). Also, it’s a bit of a weird question since you seem to be asking it and are also the subject of it. How many days of jogging is this for me? Something like that. I’ve been jogging how long?
-Walker22-•
Generally, it would be more common for ordinal numbers (first, second, third) to be used in statements, rather than as an answer to the question. This is my fifth day of jogging. On the second day, I tripped. This is my first car. In this context, I'd suggest just stating how many days it's been, or how many days you've been doing something. "I've been jogging for five days" sounds a lot more natural than "This is my fifth day of jogging", but both are correct. As the values increase, it becomes even less common to use ordinal numbers. "This is my fourth day of work" is something you might hear a native English speaker say, but it's far less less common to hear "This is my twenty ninth day in this position".