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bobsboots wrote: ↑Fri Nov 16, 2018 3:32 pm 'Nung eye' for 'you're right' or 'Is that right ?'
it's used as a confirmation, never heard it used as a question. It's like nodding your head when someone tell you something you agree with.
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Kammekor wrote: ↑Fri Nov 16, 2018 5:37 pm
bobsboots wrote: ↑Fri Nov 16, 2018 3:32 pm 'Nung eye' for 'you're right' or 'Is that right ?'
it's used as a confirmation, never heard it used as a question. It's like nodding your head when someone tell you something you agree with.
yeah Nung Aey, its the "អើ - aey" which means = yes, that's right, O.K, I agree,
its an informal agreement particle, where as Baat/Ja are just Acknowledgment particles
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Kammekor wrote: ↑Fri Nov 16, 2018 5:37 pm
bobsboots wrote: ↑Fri Nov 16, 2018 3:32 pm 'Nung eye' for 'you're right' or 'Is that right ?'
it's used as a confirmation, never heard it used as a question. It's like nodding your head when someone tell you something you agree with.
My Ex used it all the time on the phone. "Blah blah blah, nung eye ?" Then silence while she waited for the reply.
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Apparently ឥឡូវ​ (alauv) means 'now'.

My experience is that when someone is coming to our house ឥឡូវ​, or we're leaving ឥឡូវ​, it really means 'some time in the next couple of hours'.
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Username Taken wrote: ↑Fri Nov 16, 2018 9:50 pm Apparently ឥឡូវ​ (alauv) means 'now'.

My experience is that when someone is coming to our house ឥឡូវ​, or we're leaving ឥឡូវ​, it really means 'some time in the next couple of hours'.
haha cambodia time :D
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Jamie_Lambo wrote: ↑Fri Nov 16, 2018 11:55 am
Bram Pi > M'Pul - Seven
Bram Bey > M'Bey - Eight

Is there another word for 8? A bit like the 7 = M'pul, which is completely different to the official word.

Heard it when playing cards and it completely threw me. Much like the same way every person seems to have a different word for Jack, Queen & King
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cautious colin wrote: ↑Sat Nov 17, 2018 10:14 am
Jamie_Lambo wrote: ↑Fri Nov 16, 2018 11:55 am
Bram Pi > M'Pul - Seven
Bram Bey > M'Bey - Eight

Is there another word for 8? A bit like the 7 = M'pul, which is completely different to the official word.

Heard it when playing cards and it completely threw me. Much like the same way every person seems to have a different word for Jack, Queen & King
not sure myself but ill ask some of my friends, what game was you playing when you heard it? it might have something to do with the game if its not to do with the number
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Jamie_Lambo wrote: ↑Sat Nov 17, 2018 11:14 am
cautious colin wrote: ↑Sat Nov 17, 2018 10:14 am
Jamie_Lambo wrote: ↑Fri Nov 16, 2018 11:55 am
Bram Pi > M'Pul - Seven
Bram Bey > M'Bey - Eight

Is there another word for 8? A bit like the 7 = M'pul, which is completely different to the official word.

Heard it when playing cards and it completely threw me. Much like the same way every person seems to have a different word for Jack, Queen & King
not sure myself but ill ask some of my friends, what game was you playing when you heard it? it might have something to do with the game if its not to do with the number
see kou (sp?) , pretty much pairs. Incidentally, does that just mean, eat pairs?
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cautious colin wrote: ↑Sat Nov 17, 2018 12:12 pm
Jamie_Lambo wrote: ↑Sat Nov 17, 2018 11:14 am
cautious colin wrote: ↑Sat Nov 17, 2018 10:14 am
Jamie_Lambo wrote: ↑Fri Nov 16, 2018 11:55 am
Bram Pi > M'Pul - Seven
Bram Bey > M'Bey - Eight

Is there another word for 8? A bit like the 7 = M'pul, which is completely different to the official word.

Heard it when playing cards and it completely threw me. Much like the same way every person seems to have a different word for Jack, Queen & King
not sure myself but ill ask some of my friends, what game was you playing when you heard it? it might have something to do with the game if its not to do with the number
see kou (sp?) , pretty much pairs. Incidentally, does that just mean, eat pairs?
yeah ផ្គូ Pkou means to match 2 things together, and yeah i guess it could mean that,
the only card game i play is the 10's game (always forget the real name as always drunk) where you have to make sets of 10s, and the more reds you have the more money you win etc.
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Jamie_Lambo wrote: ↑Sat Nov 17, 2018 12:18 pm
cautious colin wrote: ↑Sat Nov 17, 2018 12:12 pm
Jamie_Lambo wrote: ↑Sat Nov 17, 2018 11:14 am
cautious colin wrote: ↑Sat Nov 17, 2018 10:14 am
Jamie_Lambo wrote: ↑Fri Nov 16, 2018 11:55 am
Bram Pi > M'Pul - Seven
Bram Bey > M'Bey - Eight

Is there another word for 8? A bit like the 7 = M'pul, which is completely different to the official word.

Heard it when playing cards and it completely threw me. Much like the same way every person seems to have a different word for Jack, Queen & King
not sure myself but ill ask some of my friends, what game was you playing when you heard it? it might have something to do with the game if its not to do with the number
see kou (sp?) , pretty much pairs. Incidentally, does that just mean, eat pairs?
yeah ផ្គូ Pkou means to match 2 things together, and yeah i guess it could mean that,
the only card game i play is the 10's game (always forget the real name as always drunk) where you have to make sets of 10s, and the more reds you have the more money you win etc.
Yeah, that one always seems to come after seekou. Called something like stooge? A lot more money changing hands in that one
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