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This lesson teaches you how to count from 11 to 9,999,999. If you already know 1-10, you can easily learn to count to nine million, nine hundred ninety-nine thousand, nine hundred and ninety-nine. (Not that you would actually want to count the whole way!)

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Grammar Notes:

Counting is easy in Thai, once you learn the basic numbers 1-10. These numbers are used mostly without change to build bigger numbers. There are two exceptions to this rule. First of all, the word for twenty is  yêe sìp  (not  sǎwng  sìp ) meaning "two tens". The rest of the tens follow a logical pattern:

 sǎhm sìp  : thirty (lit: three ten)
 sèe sìp  : forty (lit: four ten)
 hâh sìp  : fifty (lit: five ten)

and so on through ninety.

The second exception is to use the word  èt  to mean one, as in "twenty-one"

 yêe sìp  èt  : twenty-one (lit: two ten one)
 sǎhm sìp  èt  : thirty-one (lit: three ten one)
 sèe sìp  èt  : forty-one (lit: four ten one)

...and so on, though ninety-one. You also use  èt  in one hundred and one, two hundred and one, and so on. To build even bigger numbers, follow the easy patterns below:

eight hundred and seventy-nine þàat róy jèt sìp gôw lit: eight hundred seven ten nine

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two million six hundred thousand sǎwng láhn hòk sǎan lit: two million six hundred thousand

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Word List: English Phonetic Thai one (as in 21) èt เอ็ด twenty yêe sìp ยี่สิบ thirty sǎhm sìp สามสิบ forty sèe sìp สี่สิบ fifty hâh sìp ห้าสิบ hundred róy ร้อย thousand pan พัน ten thousand mèun หมื่น hundred thousand sǎan แสน million láhn ล้าน

 

Sample Sentences:

These sentences are based on the patterns described in the Grammar section. Click here to see slightly different versions.

sǎhm pan hâh róy þàat sìp èt
สาม พัน ห้า ร้อย แปดสิบ เอ็ด
three thousand five hundred eighty one

nèung róy hâh sìp èt
หนึ่ง ร้อย ห้าสิบ เอ็ด
one hundred fifty one

gôw sìp þàat
เก้าสิบ แปด
ninety eight

sǎhm láhn gôw sǎan
สาม ล้าน เก้า แสน
three million nine hundred thousand

þàat sǎan sǎhm pan hâh sìp hâh
แปด แสน สาม พัน ห้าสิบ ห้า
eight hundred and three thousand and fifty five

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