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. Sometimes the noun itself becomes the numeral auxiliary, or is substituted for a descriptive word, as ရွာ&#8203;ကိုး&#8203;ရွာ, nine villages, မင်း&#8203;ဆယ်&#8203;မင်း, ten governors.

. Words denoting some part or quantity of a thing are combined with numerals in the same manner as words descriptive of a quality, there being no other difference in the cases, excepting that in the latter the number of individual things merely is expressed; in the former, the number of the parts or quantities of the thing, as ရေ&#8203;နှစ်&#8203;ခွက်, or နှစ်&#8203;ခွက်&#8203;သော&#8203;ရေ, two cups of water; စက္ကူ&#8203;အထုပ်&#8203;နှစ်&#8203;ဆယ်, or အထုပ်&#8203;နှစ်&#8203;ဆယ်&#8203;သော&#8203;စက္ကူ, twenty bundles of paper; နှစ်&#8203;ရက်, two days (ကာလ, time, being understood), literally, two days of time.

. The numeral တ, one, combined with a numeral auxiliary reduplicated, as တခုခု, တယောက်&#8203;ယောက်, denotes any one, some one (out of several); when combined with a numeral auxiliary, and the combination reduplicated, as တခု&#8203;တခု, တယောက်&#8203;တ&#8203;ယောက်, it denotes one after another (whether every one or several); when combined with a numeral auxiliary, and followed by the same numeral combined with လေ, as တခု&#8203;တ&#8203;လေ, တယောက်&#8203;တ&#8203;လေ (sometimes reversed), it denotes a few, now and then one, here and there one; when combined with a numeral auxiliary, and preceded by the same numeral, combined with စုံ, as တစုံ&#8203;တခု, တစုံ&#8203;တ&#8203;ယောက်, it denotes some one, indefinite. Such combinations may be regarded as pronominal adjectives. They are joined to their nouns, according to the general rule.

. Ordinal numerals are of Pali origin, and are prefixed to their nouns, as ဒုတိ&#8203;ယ&#8203;ခဏ်း, the second section. Ordinals are also made by affixing မြောက်, to raise, to cardinal numerals,