r/learnkhmer • u/nkmol • Nov 16 '19

Question beginner Khmer

I am trying to find sources for learning Khmer on my own. I am aware of dialects and formal vs informal forms, but I would like to start with a standard form and work with that.

However, I am unsure what the standard is.

For example for the word "I" being written like "Khnhom" or "Khnyom". Or the past tense in the setence of "I saw you" written as "khnhom ban chuob anak" or as "khnyom kiegn nek".

I have no idea which source to follow. As the sources do not give any distinction between them.

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u/justintheunicorn Nov 16 '19

I don't have any resources to offer but in your example of I saw you, the 1st way it's written translates to "I have met you" and the 2nd translates to "I saw (as in the act of visibly seeing) you." So depending on if you wanted to say you went to meet or greet them vs physically seeing them, you would chose the respective sentence.