khmer grammar 11

There is not much different between a noun in Khmer and a noun in English. A noun is a word used to name a person, animal, place, thing and abstract idea.

Many noun, like "គ្រូបង្រៀន " which means "teacher" can refer to men or women. Once, many Khmer nouns would change form depending on their gender. For example, A man was called "លោកគ្រូបង្រៀន" while a woman was called "អ្នកគ្រូបង្រៀន ". The use of gender specific noun is quite common in some words. Here are more examples:

There are many kinds of noun in Khmer: proper nouns, common noun, abstract nouns collective nouns, countable nouns and uncountable nouns. Countable noun is a noun that we can count and usually it follow by a specifier. Since Khmer nouns do not have the plural form like most English nouns that change their form by adding "-s" or "-es", Khmer countable nouns has the following word order:

Noun	Number	Specifier	Note
គ្រូបង្រៀន	ពីរ	នាក់	Specifier "នាក់" is used to count person such as friends, farmers, teachers, students and so on.
teacher	two	person
គោ	បី	ក្បាល	Specifier " ក្បាល " is used to count animal such as cows, cat, dog by their head.
cow	three	head
ខ្មៅដៃ	បួន	ដើម	Specifier " ដើម " is used to count long cylindrical object such as stick, tree, pencil, pen and so on.
pencil	four	stick
ផ្លែក្រូច	ប្រាំ	ផ្លែ	Specifier " ផ្លែ " is used to count individual fruit such as mango, watermelon orange.
orange	five	fruit
ទ្បាន	ពីរ	គ្រឿង	Specifier " គ្រឿង " is used to count object that involve with machinery such as car, motorbike, truck, airplane, and so on.
car	two	machine
ផ្ទះ	បួន	ខ្នង	Specifier " ខ្នង " is used to count object that involves with building such as house.
house	four		Specifier " ខ្នង " is difficult to translate, it has no counterparts in English. " a house with four sections of roof"
ចេក	ប្រាំ	ផ្លែ	Specifier " ផ្លែ " is used to count individual fruit such as mango, watermelon orange.
banana	five	fruits
ចេក	ពីរ	ស្និត	Specifier " ស្និត " is used to count a hand of banana which may consist of 5, 6, to ten bananas.
banana	two	hand
ក្រូច	មួយ	ឡូ	Specifier " ឡូ " is used to count any object or things with in a number of twelve" dozen"
orang	one	dozen
សាច់ជ្រូក	ពីរ	គីឡូ	Specifier " គីឡូ " is used to measure the weight of object or thing. One pound equal to 0.453 Kilograms
pork	two	kilogram
លុយ	១០០	រៀល	Specifier " រៀល " is used to identify Cambodian currency.
money	100	riel

Specifier is a word which specify the size, shape, amount, or kind of unit being counted.