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Numerals are generally combined with a word, descriptive of some quality in the noun to which they belong, and in that state, are joined to nouns, according to the general rule.

If the numeral is less than ten, the auxiliary word is affixed to it (the formative အ, whenever it occurs, being dropped,) as ခွက်&#8203;နှစ်&#8203;လုံး, or နှစ်&#8203;လုံး&#8203;သော&#8203;ခွက်, two cups, from ခွက်, a cup, နှစ်, two, and အလုံး, round; if it is a capital number, as ten, twenty, thirty, &c. two hundred, three hundred, &c. the auxiliary is prefixed to it, as ခွက်&#8203;အ&#8203;လုံး&#8203;နှစ်&#8203;ဆယ်, or အ&#8203;လုံး&#8203;နှစ်&#8203;ဆယ်&#8203;သော&#8203;ခွက်, twenty cups; and if it is a numeral, intervening between the capitals, the auxiliary is both prefixed and affixed, as ခွက်&#8203;အ&#8203;လုံး&#8203;နှစ်&#8203;ဆယ်&#8203;နှစ်&#8203;လုံး, or အ&#8203;လုံး&#8203;နှစ်&#8203;ဆယ်&#8203;နှစ်&#8203;လုံး&#8203;သော&#8203;ခွက်, twenty two cups. But in any case in which the auxiliary is prefixed, it may be omitted, as ဆ&#8203;ရာ&#8203;အ&#8203;ပါး&#8203;နှစ်&#8203;ဆယ်, or အ&#8203;ပါး&#8203;နှစ်&#8203;ဆယ်&#8203;သော&#8203;ဆရာ, twenty teachers, may be written ဆ&#8203;ရာ&#8203;နှစ်&#8203;ဆယ်, or နှစ်&#8203;ဆယ်&#8203;သော&#8203;ဆ&#8203;ရာ, and ဆ&#8203;ရာ&#8203;အ&#8203;ပါး&#8203;နှစ်&#8203;ဆယ်&#8203;နှစ်&#8203;ပါး, or အ&#8203;ပါး&#8203;နှစ်&#8203;ဆယ်&#8203;နှစ်&#8203;ပါး&#8203;သော&#8203;ဆ&#8203;ရာ, twenty two teachers, may be written ဆ&#8203;ရာ&#8203;နှစ်&#8203;ဆယ်&#8203;နှစ်&#8203;ပါး, or နှစ်&#8203;ဆယ်&#8203;နှစ်&#8203;ပါး&#8203;သော&#8203;ဆ&#8203;ရာ.