• 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...
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  • In Japanese, counter words or counters are measure words used with numbers to count things, actions, and events. Counters are added directly after numbers...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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  • raf kitap – "seven shelves of book" Collective noun Grammatical number Measure word "less, fewer". Merriam-Webster's dictionary of English usage (2nd ed...
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  • 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...
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  • claimed by some that all nouns are effectively mass nouns, requiring a measure word to be quantified. Some quantifiers can be used with both mass nouns and...
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    Thai language, numerals often follow the modified noun and precede a measure word, although variations to this pattern occur. The Thai language lacks grammatical...
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  • 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...
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    measure words can also be reduplicated to indicate "one or the other": ယောက် (measure word for people) → တစ်ယောက်ယောက် ('someone') ခု (measure word for...
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  • listed are not included: Some words are used for counting in multiples: Measure word Classifier (linguistics) Typically, there are 20 cigarettes in a pack...
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  • free dictionary. Classifier may refer to: Classifier (linguistics), or measure word, especially in East Asian languages Classifier handshape, in sign languages...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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  • technical terms, and adoptions and adaptations of foreign words. Each function word either: gives grammatical information about other words in a sentence or...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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  • Jones Counter, measures distance bicycles travel Counter (typography), an enclosed space in a letter-form Measure word, a type of word in some languages...
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    : 670-671  The most appropriate means of measuring the length of a word is by counting its syllables or morphemes. When a word has multiple definitions or multiple...
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  • compounds: Less common are Measure words are not necessary just to say "a": burung "a bird, birds". Using sê- plus a measure word is closer to English "one"...
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  • Pronoun (redirect from Prop-word)
    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...
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  • they are combined with another word, be it a numerical place (e.g. tens, hundreds, thousands, etc.) or a measure word. For one, two, and seven (all of...
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    and the Flesch–Kincaid Grade Level. Although they use the same core measures (word length and sentence length), they have different weighting factors....
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    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"...
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  • Verb (redirect from Doing word)
    A verb is a word that generally conveys an action (bring, read, walk, run, learn), an occurrence (happen, become), or a state of being (be, exist, stand)...
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  • changed to the spelling alphabet equivalent word "Roger". The modern NATO spelling alphabet uses the word "Romeo" for "R" instead of "Roger", and "Romeo"...
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  • morphemes Use of Hokkien word order (in vocabulary) in lieu of standard Mandarin word order Modifying the meaning of Mandarin word using Hokkien words (loaned...
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    the noun. The noun's measure word (MW) must be used in between the numeral and the noun. Most nouns take the generic measure word ţa, although there are...
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