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Forums > Chinese-English translation > Re: Measure Words! New Topic Goto Thread: Previous•Next Measure Words! Posted by: Sunsetlover (IP Logged) Date: October 05, 2007 03:03AM I don't know about other people, but I think the toughest part of the Chinese language is the "measure words"! Can someone explain to me why they even exist?! No other language uses them. What is the use? So talking about measure words, can you please help me with this: is it (last month) "shang yue", "shang ge yue", or "shang yige yue". I've seen all 3 written. I think it's "shang ge yue", but I want to be 100% certain. I assume the same goes for "next week" and so on, xia ge xingqi Also, is it possible that a noun can have more than 1 measure word? I've seen 3 used for huoche (train): tang, ban, liang...which one is it? Btw, to the moderator, shouldn't we have a forum for specific GRAMMAR questions like this? this is not a translation question, but I don't see where else it should go. Thank you! Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/05/2007 03:18AM by Sunsetlover. Options: Reply To This Message•Quote This Message Re: Measure Words! Posted by: lisa2008 (IP Logged) Date: October 09, 2007 10:59AM as a matter of fact,when u said yang yue, u r serious,just serious, nobody can guess what is yr emotion when u say it. but when u say: shang ge yue,u r cold or u r familiar,or u think the matter u do is easy,not important.it means u r in some kind of emotion. measure word, for some kind of emotion, of for stop,rhythm.just this. xia ge xing qi just for rhythm. i don't know yr tang, r u sure for it? yi ban means half. yi liang means twentieth of one kg. maybe u want this,maybe i misunderstand u. thanks. Options: Reply To This Message•Quote This Message Re: Measure Words! Posted by: ahuang (IP Logged) Date: October 18, 2007 01:41AM 上一个月(shàng yígè yuè) ab. as follows: 上个月(shàng gè yuè) 上一月(shàng yí yuè) 上月(shàngyuè) the same for many phrases with yi+measureword as you said 下一个星期(xià yígè xīngqī) Options: Reply To This Message•Quote This Message Re: Measure Words! Posted by: Sunsetlover (IP Logged) Date: October 19, 2007 02:47PM Thank you, but in conversation we say "shàng gè yuè" or "shàng yígè yuè"? ie. "last month I went to Shanghai" Options: Reply To This Message•Quote This Message Re: Measure Words! Posted by: ahuang (IP Logged) Date: October 20, 2007 12:01AM both of them are right but a native speaker should incline to "shàng gè yuè" just for its more fluent and shorter pronunciation a important standard in Chinese: the more fluent and shorter pronunciation for one sentence the better, otherwise more short sentences for the same meaning Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/20/2007 12:05AM by ahuang. Options: Reply To This Message•Quote This Message Re: Measure Words! Posted by: alternativeliving (IP Logged) Date: October 28, 2007 07:07PM Quote:No other language uses them English does have some measure words! Twenty head of cattle Two pair(s) of trousers (or pants if you are American) A dozen stem of roses Chinese is not the only language to use them all the time. Japanese and Bengali both use them! Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/06/2008 04:42PM by Olive. Options: Reply To This Message•Quote This Message Re: Measure Words! Posted by: fgaeta (IP Logged) Date: January 06, 2008 04:47AM A piece of paper A pair of scissors A piece/slice/loaf of bread A grain of sand There's a pretty long list of measure words here Options: Reply To This Message•Quote This Message Goto: Forum List•Message List•Search• This forum is currently read only. This is a temporary situation. Please check back later. Phorum |
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