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That is because these are measure words themselves.
Yan
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Sent: 2007年11月15日
22:04
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Subject: Re: Chinese Measuring
Word "gè"
Dear
I have
noticed that the following commonly used nouns require no measure words:
一年、两天、三周、四分、五分钟、六秒、七秒钟
And you
may use or disuse measure words with星期、小时
Best
wishes,
Cai
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Sent: 2007年11月15日
14:59
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Subject: Re: Chinese Measuring
Word "gè"
Dear
I just introduced measure words to my
pupils this week. (They are non-natives too, in year 9.)
I used some English examples, saying, 'If I had some chewing gum and
wanted to offer you some, I would ask if you wanted a...of gum,' and they all
said, 'Piece.' I then made up similar situations like naughty children
might be a lump/piece of
coal from Father Christmas or that people on the beach might watch a flock of
seagulls, getting them to call out the 'measure word' each time.
Then I just said that although we only use words like 'piece,' 'lump' or
'flock' with certain nouns, Mandarin requires words like that for every
noun. I wrote 'number - measure word - noun' on the board and they all
copied it into the 'patterns' section we have set up in their notebooks.
I emphasised that numbers and nouns will not be next to each other but will
always a measure word in between. We are using Chinese for GCSE so there
followed a lot of discussion in the target language about how many cats and
dogs people have. Hope that helps a bit.
With regards,
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