This
rule applies for all other tens. Thus ‘forty nine’ is /sòm-lí
pàkúo/ [li < pali] (ten-four) + (nine). The following examples
could be seen :
/pàkhàt/
‘one’
/pàhnì/
‘two’
/pàthúm/
‘three’
/pàlí/
‘four’
/pàá/
‘five’
/pàrùk/
‘six’
/pàsàri/
‘seven’
/pàríet/
‘eight’
/pàkúo/
‘nine’
/sòm/
‘ten’
/sòm
pàkhàt/
‘eleven’
/sòm
pàkúo/
‘nineteen’
/sòmhnì/
‘twenty’
/sòmhnì
pakhat/
‘twenty
one’
/sòmhnì
pakúo/
‘twenty
nine’
/sòmthúm/
‘thirty’
/sòmthúm
pàkhàt/
‘thirty
one’
/sòmthúm
pakúo/
‘thirty
nine’
/sòmlí/
‘forty’
/sòmlì
pàkhàt/
‘forty
one’
/sòmlì
pàkúo/
‘forty
nine’
/sòmngá/
‘fifty’
/sòmrùk/
‘sixty’
/sòmsàrì/
‘seventy’
/sòmríet/
‘eighty’
/sòmkúo/
‘ninty’
/sòmkúo
pakúo/
‘ninty
nine’
/zà/
‘hundred’
/sá:/
‘thousand’
/núoi/
‘lakh’
Word
Order
When
the cardinals occur as attributives to the nouns the just
follow the nouns referred to. As noted before, in such cases,
the nouns referred to need not be pluralised.
/làkhàbú/
‘book’
/làkhàbú
pàhnì/
‘two books’
/cé:/
‘rupee’
/cé:
sóm/
‘ten rupees’
/túisùnsùo/
‘well’
/túisùnsùo
pàá/
‘five wells’
Reference
made with ‘Definiteness’
When some nouns are required to be mentioned with ‘definiteness’
along with numerical reference, cardinals occur at the end
of the phrase. For example:
/thá/
‘tree’
/thá
kù/
‘the (stump of) free’
/thí
kù
sòm pàkúo/
‘the
(particular) nineteen trees’
/lèkhèbú/
‘book’
/lèkhàbú
cù/
‘the
book’
/lèkhèbu
pàriéthài cù/
‘the
eight books’
It
is also permissible to use /cù/ after
the numeral.
When Case Reference is made
Cardinals,
like nouns, can participate in case functions. The case suffix
or the post position can occur directly after cardinals. The
following examples could be seen:
/sòm-á
ìnthkín
pàlí éi (= we) pèicùn (=substract) paruk
(= six) à úm/
‘subtracting four from ten we get six’
/pàá
i
thùm smpàá/
‘five three times is fifteen’
/pàkúo pàthm-ín sém róh/
‘divide nene by three’
á/
kín
pàlí éi (= we) pèicùn (=substract) paruk
mpà
