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 a Thai number to anything.

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