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Khmer Food – Vocab 6

This is a pretty big lesson since there is a lot of specific words that are need to be known and are important. So with that let’s start learning about khmer foods.

This first section has an accompany youtube video. This will help you get the full pronouncation, as sometimes the written transliterations are a little off. Please click like or subscribe if the free video helped you at all.

Section 1. Khmer food and phrases

I want Dessert: Kynom jong baan bon-aem

I’m full: Kynom cha-aet howie

Im drunk: kynom sro-vwong howie

Alcohol: sraa

can i have the bill: (soam) kit luy

beef: saik-goo

pork – saik jruuk

chicken: saik-moan

fish: dtrey

food-mhoob

beer: bia

rice-bii

vegetable-bon-lae

Click more to read about Cambodia food phrases.

Khmer Colors – Vocab 2

Vocab 2

Here is a youtube video to help you with your pronunciation of the khmer colors and to help your listening. Sorry it is not edited, or shows the translations and transliterations on the video. When I get more time, maybe I will come back and clean up this video a little bit.

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Khmer, English

bpoa crawl-home, red

bpoa kiaw, blue*

bpoa lluang, yellow

bpoa tnaot, brown

bpoa kmau, black

bpoa sawl, white

bpoa bai-dtoong, green*

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*Some Cambodians will list blue and green as the same Khmer colors so the word blue, ‘bpoa kiaw’ can be used as blue or green. Green can not be used to describe blue through…so in doubt when you learn Khmer colors, learn blue first before you learn green lol.

After reviewing, please go the accompany Khmer Colors Worksheet to practice!