Speak Thai Today

Chapter 10

using classifiers

all examples

Exercise 20

13 people210 apples
34 friends43 cars
52 documents612 bottles
75 dogs87 houses
94 rooms107 men
118 slices of pizza122 skirts
136 oranges144 TV’s
152 letters163 tickets
173 women182 mobile phones
193 knives20Peter came to Phuket 4 times

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13 khon2áaep-bpêrn 10 lûuk
3phêuuan 4 khon4ród-yon 3 khan
5àek-gà-săan 2 chà-bàp6khùuad 12 bai
7măa 5 dtuua8bâan 7 lăng
94 hâwng10phûu-chaai 7 khon
11pizza 8 chín12grà-bproong 2 dtuua
13sôm 6 lûuk14thee-wee 4 khrêuuang
15jòd-măai 2 chà-bàp16dtŭua 3 bai
17phûu-yĭng 3 khon18meuu-tĕuu 2 khrêuuang
19mêed 3 lâem20Peter maa Phuket 4 khráng

Bonus material

We also use classifiers with ordinal numbers (1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc.). We just add thêe in front of a number to make it ordinal, like this:

thêe nèung or raaekfirst
thêe săwngsecond
thêe săamthird
thêe sèefourth
etc.etc.

To use a classifier with an ordinal number, we place it between the noun and the number:

phûu-chaai khon râaek

the first man

ród-yon khan thêe săam

the third car

dtóe dtuua thêe săwng láe săam

the second and third tables