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Months

After learning about tones and about numbers, we can talk about months! The word for month is ghueh8 月 , and to say "one month" or "a month", you'd say jek(4) ghueh8 一月 .

The words for each month of the year are formed by combining a number and the word month. However, the months do not follow the usual tone change rules, and I've found that my own family isn't even consistent on what the correct tones are here, but here's what seems to be the general consensus: When saying each month in isolation,

• you would not apply tone change to the number,
• and you do apply it to the word month

Here's the translation for January:

ek4 ghueh(4)

The rest of the months follow the same pattern of number + month:

But, there's actually more nuance to this tone rule. When I asked my mom whether the number part should have tone change, she said, "Sometimes it does, and sometimes it doesn't!" I've heard that other people will sandhi the number if there's more to the month phrase that we're saying.

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