Learn to count to 100,000
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| INTRODUCTION |
| Ryan: Basic Bootcamp Lesson 5 – “Counting from one hundred to one hundred thousand in Thai”. Welcome back to Basic Boot Camp. This five part series will help ease your way into Thai. |
| Rawinporn: We go over ordered basics that will really help you understand Thai in a quick and easy way. |
| Ryan: In this lesson, we’ll venture into higher number territory, from over one hundred to ten thousand. |
| Rawinporn: You’ll be listening to two people at an auction. |
| Ryan: They’ll be bidding on an item. They’re trying to outbid one another for this item and the price keeps rising. |
| DIALOGUE |
| Auctioneer: And here we have a beautiful new motorcycle. Look stylish as you ride around town. We'll start the bidding at one hundred dollars. |
| khon thîi nùeng: nùeng-ráauy |
| khon thîi sǎawng: sǎawng-ráauy |
| khon thîi nùeng: hâa-ráauy |
| khon thîi sǎawng: nùeng-phan |
| khon thîi nùeng: nùeng-phan sǎam-ráauy |
| khon thîi sǎawng: nùeng-phan hòk-ráauy |
| khon thîi nùeng: sǎawng-phan |
| khon thîi sǎawng: sǎam-phan |
| khon thîi nùeng: bpàaet-phan |
| Auctioneer: Sold to this person right here for eight thousand dollars. |
| POST CONVERSATION BANTER |
| Ryan: Khun Rawinporn, poor Khun Wichan walked away with nothing, but Khun Somjai got a beautiful, new motorcycle that she wanted. How much did she pay for it? |
| Rawinporn: [bpàaet-phan] dollars which is $8,000. |
| Ryan: Sounds like a lot for a motorcycle. It must have been a pretty good one. Or, maybe, she just really wanted it. |
| Rawinporn: Right. She sounded really excited. |
Lesson focus |
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| Ryan: Ok. So, they were shouting out a lot of big numbers in this conversation. Let’s take a closer look at how to put them together. In the last Boot Camp Lesson about numbers, we learned that to say 12 in Thai, we basically say “ten-two”. |
| Rawinporn: [sìp sǎawng] |
| Ryan: 13 is? |
| Rawinporn: Ten-three. [sìp sǎam] |
| Ryan: And, so on. 20 is an exception. |
| Rawinporn: [yîi sìp] |
| Ryan: 21? |
| Rawinporn: [yîi sìp èt] |
| Ryan: And, so on. Up to 99 which is? |
| Rawinporn: [gâao sìp gâao] |
| Ryan: And then, at the end of the lesson, we learned that one hundred is? |
| Rawinporn: [nùeng ráauy] |
| Ryan: It’s exactly the same with English. 100 is the combination of “one” and “hundred” which is? |
| Rawinporn: [nùeng ráauy] |
| Ryan: So, here’s the question: how do we start forming numbers over one hundred? Well, it’s very simple, actually. We just take [nùeng ráauy] and then put the number after it. |
| Rawinporn: Exactly. For example, 101 is [nùeng ráauy], 100 plus [nùeng], 1, so [nùeng ráauy nùeng]. |
| Ryan: How about 111? |
| Rawinporn: 100 is [nùeng ráauy] and 11 is [sìp èt], so [nùeng ráauy sìp èt]. |
| Ryan: So, you can see again that the pattern is the same. Now, let’s go through multiples of 100. 100 all the way to 900. Khun Rawinporn, please? |
| Rawinporn: Ok, Ryan. To create multiple hundreds, we put the number in front of [ráauy]. |
| Ryan: Ok. Let’s start from 100. |
| Rawinporn: [nùeng ráauy] |
| Ryan: Literally, “one hundred”. How about 200? |
| Rawinporn: [sǎawng ráauy] |
| Ryan: Two hundred. How about 300? |
| Rawinporn: [sǎam ráauy] then, [sìi ráauy] |
| Ryan: 400. |
| Rawinporn: [hâa ráauy] |
| Ryan: 500. How about 600? |
| Rawinporn: [hòk ráauy] |
| Ryan: Ok. How about 700? |
| Rawinporn: [jèt ráauy] |
| Ryan: How about 800? |
| Rawinporn: [bpàaet ráauy] |
| Ryan: And 900? |
| Rawinporn: [gâao ráauy] |
| Ryan: Before moving on, let’s just recap them one more time. [chûuai phûut ìik khráng dâai măi khráp], please say it one more time. Here we go. 100? |
| Rawinporn: [nùeng ráauy] |
| Ryan: 200? |
| Rawinporn: [sǎawng ráauy] |
| Ryan: 300? |
| Rawinporn: [sǎam ráauy] |
| Ryan: 400? |
| Rawinporn: [sìi ráauy] |
| Ryan: 500? |
| Rawinporn: [hâa ráauy] |
| Ryan: 600? |
| Rawinporn: [hòk ráauy] |
| Ryan: 700? |
| Rawinporn: [jèt ráauy] |
| Ryan: 800? |
| Rawinporn: [bpàaet ráauy] |
| Ryan: And, 900? |
| Rawinporn: [gâao ráauy] |
| Ryan: Now, we come to one thousand which is a new word. |
| Rawinporn: [phan] means “thousand”. It is similar to the word for “hundred”, in that you also need to say the word for “one”. Therefore, “one thousand” is [nùeng phan]. |
| Ryan: Now, as you guessed it, the pattern is going to stay the same. Let’s go to 2000. |
| Rawinporn: [sǎawng phan] |
| Ryan: 3000? |
| Rawinporn: [sǎam phan] |
| Ryan: 4000? |
| Rawinporn: [sìi phan] |
| Ryan: 5000? |
| Rawinporn: [hâa phan] |
| Ryan: 6000? |
| Rawinporn: [hòk phan] |
| Ryan: 7000? |
| Rawinporn: [jèt phan] |
| Ryan: 8000? |
| Rawinporn: [bpàaet phan] |
| Ryan: And, 9000? |
| Rawinporn: [gâao phan] |
| Ryan: Now, before we go, let’s introduce a complex number so that we can see how it’s all put together. Up until now, we’ve been using clean numbers. |
| Rawinporn: What do you mean by clean numbers? |
| Ryan: Well, very easy numbers like 3000, 4000, 200. Let’s just pick a random number, but one that’s a little more complex. How about 3592? |
| Rawinporn: Ok. |
| Ryan: Which, by our definition, is a dirty number. So, we start out with 3000? |
| Rawinporn: [sǎam phan] |
| Ryan: 500? |
| Rawinporn: [hâa ráauy] |
| Ryan: 92? |
| Rawinporn: [gâao sìp sǎawng] |
| Ryan: Put it all together? |
| Rawinporn: [sǎam phan hâa ráauy gâao sìp sǎawng] |
| Ryan: 3592. And, there it is. These are the building blocks for you to count all the way from one to 10000. |
| Rawinporn: Just keep in mind a few exceptions and you’ll be sit. |
| Ryan: Now, we did say that we go up to 10000. So, let’s talk about that number for a moment, because it’s important. |
| Rawinporn: Yes, because in English, you can just say 10000, but in Thai we have a separate word for 10000. |
| Ryan: That’s right. And, because it’s different from English, this concept can be a little confusing at first. What’s the word for 10000? |
| Rawinporn: [nùeng mùuen] |
| Ryan: [nùeng mùuen] means 10000. So, let’s go over the keywords from this lesson. First, what’s 100, again? |
| Rawinporn: [nùeng ráauy] |
| Ryan: 1000? |
| Rawinporn: [nùeng phan] |
| Ryan: And 10000? |
| Rawinporn: [nùeng mùuen] |
| Ryan: There you have it. Now, Khun Rawinporn, I think there’s one more number that we really should cover. |
| Rawinporn: What is it? |
| Ryan: How about “zero”? |
| Rawinporn: Oh, yes. That’s [sǔun]. |
Outro |
| Ryan: Ok. Now, you’ve graduated from Boot Camp and you have enough basics under your belt to move on to Basics Thai Lesson. |
| Rawinporn: [chôok dii khâ] Good luck. |
| Ryan: [sà-wàt-dii khráp] |
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