measure words. One can also say "three pails of shells"; in this case the measure word pails accompanies a count noun (shells). The term measure word...

In Japanese, counter words or counters are measure words used with numbers to count things, actions, and events. Counters are added directly after numbers...

particular meaning of its own, as in the example above, and measure word denoting a word for a particular quantity or measurement of something, such as...

Measure for Measure is a play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1603 or 1604 and first performed in 1604. It was published in the...

raf kitap – "seven shelves of book" Collective noun Grammatical number Measure word Nicolas, D. (2008). "Mass nouns and plural logic" (PDF). Linguistics...

A unit of measurement, or unit of measure, is a definite magnitude of a quantity, defined and adopted by convention or by law, that is used as a standard...

yonko no ringo (4個のリンゴ). Measure words that use native numbers include days of the month and tsu, which is the generic measure word that roughly translates...

technical terms, and adoptions and adaptations of foreign words. Each function word either: gives grammatical information about other words in a sentence or...

part of speech or part-of-speech (abbreviated as POS or PoS, also known as word class or grammatical category) is a category of words (or, more generally...

measure typing and reading speeds (usually in words per minute). When converting character counts to words, a measure of 5 or 6 characters to a word is...

An interrogative word or question word is a function word used to ask a question, such as what, which, when, where, who, whom, whose, why, whether and...

class of the noun is understood from the measure word, the noun is often omitted and only the measure word is used, e.g. শুধু একজন থাকবে। Shudhu êk-jôn...

Thai language, numerals often follow the modified noun and precede a measure word, although variations to this pattern occur. The Thai language lacks grammatical...

measure words can also be reduplicated to indicate "one or the other": ယောက် (measure word for people) → တစ်ယောက်ယောက် ('someone') ခု (measure word for...

topic. While the subject is determined syntactically, primarily through word order, the agent is determined through its relationship to the action expressed...

claimed by some that all nouns are effectively mass nouns, requiring a measure word to be quantified. Some quantifiers are specific to mass nouns (e.g.,...

In linguistics and grammar, a pronoun (glossed PRO) is a word or a group of words that one may substitute for a noun or noun phrase. Pronouns have traditionally...

listed are not included: Some words are used for counting in multiples: Measure word Classifier (linguistics) Typically, there are 20 cigarettes in a pack...

Mandarin, nouns are normally required to be accompanied by a classifier or measure word when they are qualified by a numeral or by a demonstrative. Examples...

English. 半; bàn; 'half' functions as a number and therefore requires a measure word. For example: 半杯水; bàn bēi shuǐ; 'half a glass of water'. Ordinal numbers...

An adjective (abbreviated ADJ) is a word that describes or defines a noun or noun phrase. Its semantic role is to change information given by the noun...

unless the number is a round number (ends in a zero), in which case, the measure word precedes the number. Nouns to which the classifiers refer to can be omitted...

free dictionary. Classifier may refer to: Classifier (linguistics), or measure word, especially in East Asian languages Classifier handshape, in sign languages...

spread" as an arching bow, but as a common noun in modern use it is a measure word for flat objects such as paper and cloth, like the English "sheet of"...

than that. You could talk about this hat, that hat, and yon hat. Today the word survives as a colloquial adjective, yonder, but our speech is fractionally...

Jones Counter, measures distance bicycles travel Counter (typography), an enclosed space in a letter-form Measure word, a type of word in some languages...

relative pronoun is a pronoun that marks a relative clause. An example is the word which in the sentence "This is the house which Jack built." Here the relative...

and the Flesch–Kincaid Grade Level. Although they use the same core measures (word length and sentence length), they have different weighting factors....

appropriate measure word. The noun's measure word (MW) must be used in between the numeral and the noun. Most nouns take the generic measure word gu/ţa/xán...

changed to the spelling alphabet equivalent word "Roger". The modern NATO spelling alphabet uses the word "Romeo" for "R" instead of "Roger", and "Romeo"...