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The Journal of the Royal Institute of Thailand Volume II - 2010 Sentence Classifiers and Verb Phrase Classifiers 62 ‘A hundred times of difficulty and a thousand times of poverty. (we will endure).’ i. kh w khàp rót won s am r p he drive car circle three time ‘He drove his car in a circle three times‘ j. kh w ʔ àan n ŋš lêm nán s am thîaw he read book cl. that three time. ‘He read that book three times.’ k. nákmuay khûu níi chók kan s ìp yók boxer pair this fight each other ten round ‘The two boxers enter a ten round match.’ l. ph m nâŋ rótmee s am t kwàa ca th ŋ plaay thaaŋ I sit bus three transfer till will reach end way It took me three transfers on the bus to reach the destination.’ m. th əə n n th t diaw yan sawàaŋ she sleep lie one till dawn ‘She sleeps straight through without interruption until morning.’ 1.2 Classifiers showing unit of time, such as wínaathii ‘second’, naathii ‘minute’, chûamooŋ ‘hour’, wan ‘day’, ween 2 ‘day’, kh n ‘night’, sàpdaa ‘week’, ʔ aathít ‘week’, d an ‘month’, pii ‘year’, phans a ‘year’ (royal language), thótsawá t, ‘decade’, sàtàwát ‘century’ a. làp taa sìp wínaathii close eye ten second ‘Close your eyes for ten seconds.’ b. kh w ʔ k pay d âay sìp naathii l æw he leave go can ten minute finish ‘He left ten minutes ago.’ c. khun ca yùu thîi nîi kìi chûamooŋ you will be place this how many hour ‘How long will you be here?’ d. kh w phák kàp raw s ŋ wan he stay with us two day. ‘He stays with us two days’. 2 Found in The Royal Chronicle R.E. 120. p. 72, with the spelling เวร , but เวน in the other places meaning ‘day’