Grammar · about 10 minutes
Classifier & Modifier Order
Thai counts things with a classifier, and the words around it go in an order English speakers get wrong for years. This drills the order until it stops being a decision.
No signup. Five topics plus a reference.
Today’s Plan schedules this once you are building noun phrases longer than two words.
What a round looks like
The slot order, one position at a time
Split by which slot you are getting wrong
Counting things is noun plus number plus classifier. Some words go before the classifier slot and some after, and those are different mistakes — so they are different drills. Time phrases and ordinals get their own, because both break the pattern you just learned.
A reference you can consult mid-drill
Thai has a classifier for nearly every class of noun and no shortcut for learning which. The reference screen is there for the ones you cannot yet recall, with audio, rather than pretending memorisation happens on the first pass.
คน for people, ตัว for animals, ใบ for containers, เล่ม for books. The pattern is learnable; the assignment is vocabulary.
- 5
- topics, split by which slot goes wrong
- Reference
- screen with audio, available mid-drill
- Order
- drilled, not just classifier names
- Audio
- on the reference entries
The wider grammar
Pattern Drills covers the other nine patterns that carry everyday Thai.
Pattern DrillsNouns to count
Sound + Picture Sandbox is where the nouns these classifiers attach to are met.
Sound + Picture Sandbox