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Thailand Musings I first went to Thailand in 1997 and immediately fell in love with the country. Thailand at that time to me was mysterious and exotic, full of potentials and pitfalls. Fast forward to 2010 and here I am after 13 years and many trips to the LOS sharing, with the help of my Thai wife Golf, my experiences and knowledge with you here at Thailand Musings. Thailand may have lost some mystery for me, but it is still exotic and wonderful and I will always remember that first feeling when I stepped out into the Bangkok smog for the first time. I have yet to learn everything about Thailand and thankfully for all of us Golf is here to correct me when I err.

15 September 2007 ~ 3 Comments

Counting in Thai

No matter what language you are learning from Arabic to English to Thai it is vitaly important that you know how to counting. Numbers are so important for everyday life that this should be something you learn very early and practice until you make it completely natural so you can count without thinking about it.

Fortunately counting in Thai is really simple. It is based on 10′s and multiples of tens so once you learn how to count from 1-10 in Thai you can easily build upon that. Here are the number in Thai from 0 to 10:

0 – soon
1 – nung
2 – song
3 – sarm
4 – see
5 – haa
6 – hok
7 – djet
8 – bat
9 – gao
10 – sip

Counting above ten is really simple too, since in Thai we just add the numbers together so you would continue like this:

11 – sip et
12 – sip song
13 – sip sarm
14 – sip see
…
20 – yee sip
21 – yee sip et
22 – yee sip song
23 – yee sip sarm
…
30 – sarm sip
31 – sarm sip et
…
40 – see sip
50 – haa sip
60 – hok sip
70 – djet sip
80 – bat sip
90 – gao sip
100 – nung roy

Once you get to one hundred you can just add the lower number following so 100 is nung roy and 121 is nung roi, yee sip et and 550 would be haa roy, haa sip and 999 would be gao roy, gao sip, gao (literally nine hundred, ninety, nine just like in English).

Just start by practicing 0 to 10 anytime you can. I used to do it to count reps in the gym, but really you can count 0-10 for a lot of things in your everyday life. After a week or so it should be pretty natural and you can start to count larger numbers. Before long you’ll be able to put Thai numbers to anything.

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Steve started Thailand Musings in 2006 after meeting and marrying Golf on the site Thai Love Links. The site was started as a way to share information about Thailand, it's people, culture and traditions and has grown substantially since that time. As a long time visitor to the Kingdom Steve hopes you enjoy his thoughts and observations about Thailand and it's culture. He can be contacted here.

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3 Responses to “Counting in Thai”

  1. Asia Translate 22 October 2009 at 2:48 am Permalink

    A very interesting article. I’ve managed to get to about 7 but doubt i’ll be able to reach 100 for a while yet. Thai looks like a very complex language to translate.

  2. Dan 29 June 2010 at 6:02 am Permalink

    its not that bad of a language to translate. My girl friend has been teaching me some and i seem to be picking it up pretty quick. the nice thing about thai is that the basic structure is the same. just remembering the rules and the words is the hard part. that best thing about it is that if you are over there an screw it up. that will most likely laugh and them help you get it right. the hardest part about it is the sounds


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