| အသွယ်, what is slender. | Things small in bulk, compared to the length, as မြစ်ခြောက်သွယ် six rivers, လမ်းခုနှစ်သွယ်, seven paths. |
| ယောက်, (uncertain.) | Rational beings,—generally mankind, or superior beings, as လူရှစ်ယောက်, eight men. |
§99. Sometimes the noun itself becomes the numeral auxiliary, or is substituted for a descriptive word, as ရွာကိုးရွာ, nine villages, မင်းဆယ်မင်း, ten governors.
§100. Words denoting some part or quantity of a thing are combined with numerals in the same manner as words descriptive of a quality, there being no other difference in the cases, excepting that in the latter the number of individual things merely is expressed; in the former, the number of the parts or quantities of the thing, as ရေနှစ်ခွက်, or နှစ်ခွက်သောရေ, two cups of water; စက္ကူအထုပ်နှစ်ဆယ်, or အထုပ်နှစ်ဆယ်သောစက္ကူ, twenty bundles of paper; နှစ်ရက်, two days (ကာလ, time, being understood), literally, two days of time.
§101. The numeral တ, one, combined with a numeral auxiliary reduplicated, as တခုခု, တယောက်ယောက်, denotes any one, some one (out of several); when combined with a numeral auxiliary, and the combination reduplicated, as တခုတခု, တယောက်တယောက်, it denotes one after another (whether every one or several); when combined with a numeral auxiliary, and followed by the same numeral combined with လေ, as တခုတလေ, တယောက်တလေ (sometimes reversed), it denotes a few, now and then one, here and there one; when combined with a numeral auxiliary, and preceded by the same numeral, combined with စုံ, as တစုံတခု, တစုံတယောက်, it denotes some one, indefinite. Such combinations may be regarded as pronominal adjectives. They are joined to their nouns, according to the general rule.
§102. Ordinal numerals are of Pali origin, and are prefixed to their nouns, as ဒုတိယခဏ်း, the second section. Ordinals are also made by affixing မြောက်, to raise, to cardinal numerals,
