Some of the most useful Thai words you can learn are those for numbers. I’ve written down a list below, but as with all Thai words given on this site, the list is only a guide to pronunciation; there really is no substitute for listening to a Thai person to note how each word should be pronounced correctly. If you can master the numbers it will come in very useful whether you are at the 7-Eleven store, the taxi rank or the local market (don’t forget the polite word khap or ka). As with most countries, an effort made to speak the local language will be appreciated even if you aren’t word perfect. The Thai language does have its own way of writing numbers, but I won’t go into that here because it only complicates matters. In the vast majority of cases the Western script is used for written amounts, so for example, an item on a menu for ninety baht will be written as 90B or 90bt.
0 suun
1 neung
2 sawng
3 saam
4 sii
5 haa
6 hok
7 jet
8 paet
9 gao
10 sip
11 sip-et
12 sip-sawng
13 sip-saam
14 sip-sii
15 sip-haa
16 sip-hok
17 sip-jet
18 sip-paet
19 sip-gao
20 yii-sip
21 yii-sip-et
22 yii-sip-sawng
23 yii-sip-saam
30 saam-sip
40 sii-sip
50 haa-sip
60 hok-sip
70 jet-sip
80 paet-sip
90 gao-sip
100 rawy/neung rawy
200 sawng rawy
500 haa rawy
1,000 phan/neung phan
5,000 haa phan
10,000 meun
100,000 saen
1 million laan
