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23. Peuet bak bak u payah koh.
Four CL tree coconut must cut
'Four coconut trees will have to be cut.'
(5) peureudee 'tree trunk, a bunch or a clump of
grass;' This classifier is always preceded by the classifier
boh.
24. Ka teulet saboh peureudee pade raya that.
IN pulled-out one-CL CL rice big very
'I have pulled out a very large bunch of rice.'
(6) neuk - a variant of aneuk 'child, fruit stone, a
mini size of an object, an object that comes out from
another object;' this word is used for human children and
animal youngs, grains, stones (of whatever size), arrows,
bullets, bombs, rockets, missiles, fruit stones, and young
trees.
25. Nyoe-pat sineuk aneuk batee ube rumoh
Here one-CL child stone as-big-as house
'There is a stone here as big as a house.'
The phrase d.ywa neuk is often used to mean 'some' or 'a
little, very little,' used both for countable and
uncountable things.
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26. Duwa neuk ji-bri keu nek.
Very little 3y-give for grandmother
'He gave grandmother only a little.'