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| အသွယ်, what is slender. | Things small in bulk, compared to the length, as မြစ်ချောက်သွယ်, six rivers.
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| ဦး, a head, | Rational beings, as ကုန်သည်ခုနှစ်ဦး, seven merchants. |
| ယောက်, (uncertain.) | Rational beings,—generally mankind or superior beings, as လူရှစ်ယောက်, eight men.
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Sometimes the noun itself becomes the numeral auxiliary, or is substituted for a descriptive word, as ရွာကိုးရွာ, nine villages, မင်းဆယ်မင်း, ten governors.
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
