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The Journal of the Royal Institute of Thailand Volume II - 2010 Sentence Classifiers and Verb Phrase Classifiers 64 a. máay ph n níi n a s ŋ kràbìat plank cl. this thick two one fourth of an inch ‘This plank is half an inch thick.’ b. raw t ŋ cháy phâa kwâaŋ s ŋ kh p 3 we must use cloth wide two a span from the tip of the thumb to the tip of the forefinger’ ‘We need a piece of cloth about a meter wide’ c. s w t n ní i s uŋ sìp s k pole cl. this tall ten half a meter ‘This pole is five meters tall.’ d. s an khànàt níi yaaw sìi s ên fruit farm cl. this long four 40 meters ‘This fruit farm is 160 meters long.’ e. kh w d əə n thaaŋ l ay m n yôot he travel many 10,000 yôot ‘He travels a long distance.’ f. ph m s phâa maa yîisìpkhâaw l a I buy cloth come twenty-nine yard ‘I bought twenty-nine yards of cloth.’ i. kh w wîŋ sìphâ a may he run fifteen mile ‘He ran fifteen miles.’ 1.4 Classifiers showing a monetary unit, such as bàat ‘baht’, sàl ŋ ‘a quarter of one baht’, taml ŋ ‘four baht’, châŋ ‘80 baht’ r an ‘dollar’, ruupii ‘rupee’, yeen ‘yen’, p n ‘pound’ a. wan níi khun cháy ŋ ə n pay kìi r an day this you spend money go how many dollar ‘Today how many dollars did you spend?’ b. khâa châw bâan kh w d an lá phan p n cost rent house he month one thousand pound ‘His rent is 1,000 pounds a month.’ c. kh w dâay ŋ ə nd an d an lá láan yeen he get salary month one million yen ‘He receives a salary of a million yen a month.’ 3 One kh p is .025 meter