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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;အ&#8203;ထုပ်&#8203;နှစ်&#8203;ဆယ်, or အ&#8203;ထုပ်&#8203;နှစ်&#8203;ဆယ်&#8203;သော&#8203;စက္ကူ, twenty bundles of paper; နှစ်&#8203;ရက်, two