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,
• but the word 'month' changes to a low tone

Here's the translation for January:

ek4 ghueh(4)

The rest of the months follow the same pattern of number + month (and remember that you should use ek4(8) for 1 and yi6(7) for 2):

Dates

When you're referring to a specific day in a month, you would say the number followed by ho7 号 . For example, the 18th would be

jap(4) boih(8) ho7

To say the full date, you would say the month, then the day. And this time you do sandhi the number part of the month. Here's the translation for January 18th:

ek(8) ghueh(4) jap(4) boih(8) ho7

Here are some more examples: