Basic types of quantifiers
Because quantifiers are words used to express the unit of quantity of people, things or actions, the words "Ge, Zhi, Kou, Ba" and "Jin, kg, Dou, Sheng, Chi, Cun and Zhang" in One Man, Two Pears, Three Bells and One Teapot are used to express the unit of quantity of different types of people or things.
Quantifiers are divided into substance quantifiers and momentum words. Matter quantifiers represent the units of calculation of people and things, such as "ge" in "a person". Momentum words indicate the number of actions and the total time of occurrence, such as "times" in "see three" and "day" in "see three".
Quantifiers that modify nouns can be divided into two situations according to whether nouns are countable:
Countable nouns, such as people and tables.
Countless nouns, such as sugar and water.
In common foreign languages, generally speaking, countable nouns have no quantifiers, so they follow countable nouns directly, such as three dogs. When foreigners learn Chinese, they often feel uncomfortable using quantifiers for countable nouns, and it is more difficult to remember the fixed collocation of quantifiers and countable nouns.
In all languages in the world, it is a universal and inevitable law that several words should be measured in words, such as: a piece of paper; Three grams of sugar; Two glasses of water. Therefore, linguists focus on quantifiers of countable nouns, which is a unique grammatical phenomenon in Chinese.
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