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days, (ကာ​လ, time being understood) literally, two days of time.

The numeral တ, one, combined with a numeral auxiliary reduplicated, as တ​ခု​ခု, တ​ယောက်​ယောက်, denotes some one, (out of several;) when combined with a numeral auxiliary, and the combination reduplicated, as တ​ခု​တ​ခု, တ​ယောက်​တ​ယောက်, 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 တ​ခု​တ​လေ, တ​ယောက်​တ​လေ, (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 တ​စုံ​တ​ခု, တ​စုံ​တ​ခု​ယောက်, it denotes some one, indefinite. Such combinations may be regarded as pronominal adjectives. They are joined to their nouns, according to the general rule.

Ordinal numerals are of Pali origin, and are prefixed to their nouns, as ဒု​တိ​ယ​ခဏ်း, the second section. Ordinals are also made by affixing မြောက်, to raise, to cardinal numerals, modified