1.6. Very, a little, not very.
3. numbers
Numbers
Numbers between the round tens are made in the same way as in English; examples:
c’auq-s’éh-lè ခြောက်ဆယ့်လေး 64
shiq-s'e hniq ရှစ်ဆယ် နှစ် 82
ngà-zéh-kò ငါးဆယ့်ကိုး 59
Notice that the syllable s’eh (or zeh) “ten” is normally changed to s’éh (or zéh) (low tone is changed to creaky tone) when followed by another number.
The numbers 11 to 19 inclusive often lose the first syllable. In place of -
The numbers 11 to 19 inclusive often lose the first syllable. In place of -
tăs’éh-tiq တစ်ဆယ့်တစ်၊ 11
tăs’éh-hniq တစ်ဆယ့်နှစ်၊ စသည် 12
you often hear -
s’éh-tiq ဆယ့်တစ်၊ 11
s’éh-hniq ဆယ့်နှစ်၊ စသည် 12
Variant.
In place of c’auq-s’éh-lè etc you may sometimes hear c’auq-s’eh néh lè, literally “sixty and four”. More examples:
ngà-zéh-kò ငါးဆယ့်ကိုး 59
or ngà-zeh-néh ko ငါးဆယ်နဲ့ ကိုး 59
thoùn-zéh-c’auq သုံးဆယ့်ခြောက် 36
or thoùn-zeh-néh c’auq သုံးဆယ်နဲ့ ခြောက် 36